2024 is a big election year in Missouri. The KC Media Collective, in partnership with The Kansas City Star, have gathered all the information you need to vote in the Nov. 5 election. KBIA has partnered with them and our other outlets in the Missouri News Network to provide this voters guide for the general election.
As no-excuse absentee voting concludes today across Missouri, a KBIA analysis shows it's likely that more than 600,000 voters have already cast ballots.
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The Republican candidate for Missouri House District 50 was a late entry in the electoral contest.
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Some Republican-led states, including Missouri, say they they will block Justice Department election monitors from going inside polling places on Election Day.
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Reported cases of the infectious disease have surpassed pre-pandemic levels in Missouri.
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Geoffrey Hawtin and Cary Fowler helped start the Svalbard Global Seed Vault in Norway in 2008.
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An estimated 41 million members of Generation Z became eligible to vote in 2024. In Missouri, millennial and Gen Z college students have been working to get these young potential voters registered and prepared to cast a ballot. Together, they’ve put in hundreds of hours of work on everything from statewide initiatives to experiments with individuals.
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Popular bipartisan policies like paid medical leave have faced Congressional gridlock for decades.
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Common Pleas Court Judge Angelo Foglietta in Pennsylvania — ruling after Musk’s lawyers said the winners are paid spokespeople and not chosen by chance — did not immediately explain his reasoning.
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Puerto Rico is holding elections that will be historic regardless of which of the top two gubernatorial candidates wins.
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Striking machinists voted to approve an agreement that will hike wages by 38%. The deal was endorsed by union leaders, who warned that Boeing’s next offer might be worse.
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More than $133,000 will be added to an existing $3 million city budget for constructing Opportunity Campus.
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An analysis of formerly incarcerated voters controverts some assumptions about whom they might back in the presidential election.
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Preliminary data after Missouri’s firearm hunting season shows that 1,857 turkeys were brought in by Missouri hunters during the firearms portion of the fall turkey season. That’s 363 fewer turkeys than last year.
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Many people in the region have taken advantage of early voting, but KBIA compiled a quick guide for voting on November 5.
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Republican signs were vandalized with swastikas and other inappropriate imagery, and Yes on 3 signs have been stolen.
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The Columbia Police Officers Association has recently called out the Columbia City Council and Mayor Barbara Buffaloe on social media for what its members see as a lack of support for law enforcement amid rising crime. However, crime rates in Columbia may not be as high as officers claim.
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Stay informed about the election process from the officials that run them around the country.
Co-hosts Brianna Lennon, county clerk in Boone County, Missouri and Eric Fey, director of elections in St. Louis County, Missouri, talk to subject-matter elections experts and local election administrators to ask the questions that are most meaningful to their work and talk with colleagues about how to best approach issues like voter education, cybersecurity, and integrity.
Co-hosts Brianna Lennon, county clerk in Boone County, Missouri and Eric Fey, director of elections in St. Louis County, Missouri, talk to subject-matter elections experts and local election administrators to ask the questions that are most meaningful to their work and talk with colleagues about how to best approach issues like voter education, cybersecurity, and integrity.
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