Early-voting turnout highest since 2007 Memphis elections but not by much
Olamide Tom, 8, reacts as Emmanuel Tom lets her push the button to register his vote on the last day of early voting at Abundant Grace Fellowship Church on Saturday, Sept. 28. Election day is Thursday, Oct. 3. (Jim Weber/Daily Memphian)
The 6,258 early voters Saturday followed a Friday surge of 7,196 that pushed the total turnout for the 14-day period to 361 more than in city elections four years ago.
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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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