The Aug. 1 election by the numbers
The 13% turnout for the combination of state and federal primaries and county general elections was the lowest in Shelby County since 2004. (Mark Weber/The Daily Memphian)
The 13% turnout for the combination of state and federal primaries and county general elections was the lowest in Shelby County since 2004.
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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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