Will we see record turnout in Missouri?
Missouri voter turnout projected at nearly 55 percent https://t.co/EaewX0NhPH
— St Joseph Post (@StJosephPost) November 1, 2018
Missouri election officials are expecting voter turnout in Tuesday’s midterm election to be the highest in more than two decades.
Estimates submitted to the state by local election officials project that nearly 2.3 million people will cast ballots. That would equal almost 55 percent of registered voters.
The last presidential midterm election to exceed that mark was in 1994, when 59 percent of registered voters cast ballots.
Will a mistake suppress turnout in Missouri?
600 people are getting letters from St. Louis County Election Board mistakenly saying they can’t vote https://t.co/uXS1tXnsnW
— St. Louis Post-Dispatch (@stltoday) November 1, 2018
The error was discovered several days ago, but the board has yet to contact voters to notify them of the mistake.
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Republican Election Director Rick Stream said the error came out of confusion by election workers processing voter registrations that came in after Missouri’s Oct. 10 registration deadline.
ACLU works to prevent disenfranchised voters.
ACLU of #Kansas continues push for second voting location in Dodge City https://t.co/1XxsZPYdL8
— Katie Moore (@katie_reports) November 1, 2018
Dodge City’s sole site was temporarily relocated outside the city because of a construction project. The ACLU alleges the move disenfranchises voters, especially those who are Hispanic. They were also concerned that the temporary site wasn’t along a public transportation route and drivers have to cross railroad tracks that may be blocked.
In Ford County’s response to the lawsuit, officials said there would be free door-to-door bus service to the temporary location and that there wasn’t any racial motivation behind relocating the polling place.
We just missed a near-record rainfall for October
10.76″ of rain fell in Kansas City during October 2018. This is the 2nd wettest October on record and the 14th wettest month for any month on record in Kansas City. The bulk of the rain fell from October 6th to October 9th.
— NWS Kansas City (@NWSKansasCity) November 1, 2018
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