Political Roundup: The new election-returns layout, Hagerty defends Gaetz
U.S. Sen. Bill Hagerty, R-Tenn., talks during a press conference on immigration and the census Jan. 25 at the Capitol in Washington. (Mariam Zuhaib/AP file)
Shelby County Election Commission Chairman Mark Luttrell was among those disappointed by the 54.5% countywide voter turnout in the Nov. 5 elections.
“That means about half of the people who are eligible to vote are making decisions for all of us,” the former Shelby County mayor told The Daily Memphian. “We really, I think, worked hard to encourage people to vote.”
Luttrell is asking people their thoughts on what was behind the low turnout, which was a low watermark for presidential elections, the most popular of the election cycles, since at least 1968.
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Shelby County Election Commission 2024 election Mark Luttrell Bill Hagerty Subscriber OnlyThank you for being a subscriber to The Daily Memphian. Your support is critical.
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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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