More than 3,400 show up for first day of early voting
Early voting continues through April 30. (Benjamin Naylor/The Daily Memphian file)
Most of the opening day voters were Democrats, whose ballot boasts a race with the largest field of candidates.
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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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