No-excuse voting possible

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No-excuse voting possible

Fri, 04/03/2020 - 01:14
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RICHMOND – Tuesday’s municipal elections will not happen – being put off for two months – but perhaps could have happened on the original date if lawmakers had passed Rep. Peggy McGaugh’s “noexcuse” absentee voting measure. The public can cast absentee ballots in Missouri, but only if giving an “acceptable excuse.” In the General Assembly, Republican super-majorities in both chambers have, up to now, been reluctant to ease the rules to allow no-excuse absentee voting. The concern about voting by mail, Sen. Denny Hoskins said, is whether some way exists to verify the person who casts the ballot by mail is the correct registered voter. Hoskins and McGaw are Republicans. Party members are not as opposed to relaxing voting rules now as in the past. “My no-excuse absentee voting bill had one more vote out of Rules Committee, after it passed out of the Elections Committee 8-0, before it could get on the calendar,” McGaugh said. The promising movement on her bill stands in jeopardy…

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