Voters in Buchanan County who plan to cast their ballots absentee in the April 7th election will be allowed to submit their votes starting Saturday.

Buchanan County Clerk Mary Baack-Garvey said the courthouse will be open Saturday, April 4th from 8 a.m. to noon for Absentee Voting. The deadline to submit ballots absentee is Monday April 6th. Baack-Garvey said the office will be open until 5 p.m. on April 6th.

The last day to request an Absentee Ballot to be mailed is April 1.

The only question on the ballot for the April 7th election is a vote on wither or not to allow the City of St. Joseph to impose a use tax for out-of-state purchases.

It reads as such, “Shall the City of St. Joseph, Missouri, impose a local use tax on out-of-state purchases for a period of 10 years at the same rate as the local sales tax rate, currently Two and Eight Hundred Seventy-Five One Hundredths of One Percent (2.875%), in order to preserve existing general fund revenues and provide revenues for streets maintenance activities and to eliminate an inequity between in-state and out-ofstate businesses due to a recent Missouri Supreme Court decision, provided that if any local sales tax is reduced or raised by voter approval, the respective local use tax rate shall also be reduced or raised by the same action? A use tax return shall not be required to be filed by persons whose purchases from out-of-state vendors do
not in total exceed Two Thousand Dollars ($2,000.00) in any calendar year.”

Election Day is Tuesday, April 7th. Polls will be open from 6:00 A.M. to 7:00 P.M.