The city’s residency requirement to dominate the race for Memphis mayor
Shelby County residents work a sample ballot on the new voting machines at the Benjamin L. Hooks Central Library Oct. 6, 2022. (Patrick Lantrip/The Daily Memphian file)
A line added to a page on the Shelby County Election Commission’s website the last day of February has turned this year’s race for Memphis mayor upside down.
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2023 Memphis Mayor's race residency rule Robert Meyers Mark Luttrell Subscriber OnlyThank you for supporting local journalism.
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Bill Dries covers city and county government and politics. He is a native Memphian and has been a reporter for almost 50 years covering a wide variety of stories from the 1977 death of Elvis Presley and the 1978 police and fire strikes to numerous political campaigns, every county mayor and every Memphis Mayor starting with Wyeth Chandler.
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