Partisan Primaries Losing Favor -- Candidates' Distaste for Expensive Elections Grows As Fewer Show Up at Polls

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One or the other of them may not appreciate the link, but the Democratic campaign manager for former mayor Willie Herenton and the chairman of the Shelby County Republican Party share a political worldview.

When it comes to Shelby County's partisan primaries, Sidney Chism (the Democrat) and Lang Wiseman (the Republican) agree - they'd just as soon to get rid of them.

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Partisan Primaries Losing Favor -- Candidates' Distaste for Expensive Elections Grows As Fewer Show Up at Polls

When early voting for the May 4 county primary expands today to 20 satellite locations, nobody is expecting anything more than a trickle of voters for elections that traditionally cost taxpayers between $600,000 and $800,000. Even with Shelby County's rolls pruned down to a more-believable (but still-infl...

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