Everything you need to know to vote on election day, from finding your precinct to keeping your long fingernails and voting in confidence.

Cordova resident Patti Possel announced Monday she has qualified to run as a Republican for election to the state House District 96 seat representing Cordova and part of Germantown.

Joe Biden's wife pushed for votes Sunday during brunch time in South Main. Signs of other Democratic contenders were close by. And a Bloomberg rally Saturday in West Memphis featured five mayors supporting the former New York City mayor. Tennessee's primary is Tuesday as part of the 14-state Super Tuesday set of primaries. 

Presidential historian Michael Nelson of Rhodes College has a new book about the Clinton presidency and the former Arkansas governor's two runs for the White House. On The Daily Memphian Politics Podcast, Nelson linked Clinton's influence and time in power to the course that brought Donald Trump to the White House.

Democratic presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg took jabs at President Trump and his Democratic rivals during a Memphis stop Friday morning. 

Actor and activist Ashley Judd campaigned in the city Wednesday for Elizabeth Warren. Rival Michael Bloomberg comes to town Friday, and former Vice President Joe Biden's ads will saturate local television on the way to Super Tuesday.

The total is ahead of the early vote at this point four years ago but the difference narrowed over the weekend. And Davidson County leads the state's 95 counties in turnout through Saturday.

The last weekend of early voting in Shelby County saw the local Sanders campaign buoyed by caucus results in Nevada and a similar grass roots strategy unfolding in Memphis from rival Democrats in the race for the Democratic nomination.

Shelby County Republican Party chairman Chris Tutor on Trump, who the Democrats are likely to nominate and why Shelby County is purple, not blue.

The declaration by Chris Tutor on The Daily Memphian Politics Podcast echoes a recent message by Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris. Tutor also says he sees Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders as the Democratic presidential nominee and challenger to President Donald Trump.

Dr. George Flinn of Memphis is making a sixth run for Congress, and he's willing to spend big in hopes of ending D.C.’s “drama” and putting policy to the nation's biggest problems at the forefront

Several of the Democratic presidential campaigns started looking for Memphis votes on the first weekend of the early voting period with local politicos leading the charge to the March 3 election day.

The first numbers from the start of early voting are strong and much higher than the same point in early voting four years ago. 

Former school board member Tomeka Hart was foreperson on the Washington D.C. jury that convicted Stone on all seven counts of lying to Congress, obstruction and witness tampering. Her Facebook post defending the prosecutors in the case got the President's attention Thursday morning.

The March primaries, which lead to the only general election for a countywide position this election year, is the latest skirmish between two factions – those who work in the clerk's offices and those who don't but who have name recognition from other races.

The basics of the race for General Sessions Court Clerk on the March 3 ballot. Early voting runs through Feb. 25.

Here is everything you need to prepare yourself for the early voting period that begins Wednesday in advance of the March 3 election day.

Early voting opens Wednesday in Shelby County in the Tennessee presidential primaries. 

The Shelby County Commission will have to hold a public referendum if it wants to use capital funding for new voting machines, according to commission attorney Marcy Ingram.

The campaigns of several Democratic presidential contenders are looking for votes in the state's largest base of blue voters. But so far, it has been surrogates speaking to Memphians.

The acquittal votes were expected, but there were differences in the reasoning offered by the two Republican Senators. Also reaction from the city's two Congressional representatives.

Early voting in the state’s presidential primary is a week away.

Shelby County Commissioners' decision regarding a new voting system for August ballots isn't the final word, but a recommendation for the Shelby County Election Commission. 

The morning after the Iowa Democratic caucuses, the presidential contenders were waiting on delayed results but were also making campaign moves in March Super Tuesday primary states including Tennessee. 

As the Iowa presidential caucuses get underway Monday, it also marks the last day to register to vote in the March 3 Tennessee presidential primaries and the first day for candidates in the August state and federal primaries to pull and file their paperwork to get on the ballot.