At the Kirby Woods Baptist Church precinct, near Memphis's border with Germantown, workers celebrated bringing their 100th voter of the day through the process, around 8:45 a.m.
The voting staff at Kirby Woods began instructing voters to bypass the manual application for a ballot and go straight to the lines with the electronic poll books. Voters could also go to another line if for some reason their queue got backed up.
Brenda Ozier said she waited late so she could settle on a choice between Shelby County Mayor A C Wharton and Memphis Mayor Pro Tem Myron Lowery.
"I went back and forth between A C and Myron and finally decided for Myron," she said. "I know A C is going to win but I wanted to make sure A C knows I want change."
Mike Gates said he had not been able to get to an early-voting site but wanted to make sure and vote for Wharton.
"I think he's the best-qualified," Gates said. "A lot of people want to portray this as electing anybody but the last guy, but I really think Wharton is the best person to take this city forward."
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