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SheltieLover

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Thu Aug 6, 2020, 07:15 PM Aug 2020

Dozens of volunteers sort & verify high number of Shelby County absentee & mail-in ballots

https://www.localmemphis.com/mobile/article/news/politics/elections/high-number-of-shelby-county-absentee-mail-in-ballots/522-4088bc12-da6c-412b-87d4-4f85a57d236b

20 times the normal amount of ballot applications for a primary were mailed out.

Author: Brad Broders
Published: 5:58 PM CDT August 6, 2020
Updated: 6:08 PM CDT August 6, 2020

MEMPHIS, Tennessee — Shelby County Election Administrator Linda Phillips said things ran as planned and smoothly for the verification and scanning of mail-in and absentee ballots Thursday.

More at link.

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