Missouri
Missouri political parties grudgingly organize contests to select presidential delegates
Missouri Republicans and Democrats typically don’t agree on much, but they’re united in irritation over the legislature’s decision to ditch the state-run presidential primaries.
State lawmakers eliminated the primary in 2022 and instead placed political parties in charge of the process for divvying up presidential delegates. Before 2022, local election officials, such as county clerks and election authorities, were in charge of running presidential primaries.
During Friday’s episode of The Politically Speaking Hour on St. Louis on the Air, Missouri Democratic Party Executive Director Matthew Patterson and GOP political activist Chris Grahn-Howard talked about how the state’s political parties are trying to make the best of the situation.
Patterson said the Democratic process will resemble a primary, with mail-in voting and in-person voting throughout the state on March 23. The entire contest is expected to cost $150,000 to $200,000, with the Democratic National Committee picking up some of the cost.
“We felt like that was the best way to get as many people involved as possible,” Patterson said.
The Missouri GOP caucus will resemble Iowa’s, in which people will go to select locations in the state’s counties and vote in groups on whom they want to support for president. Grahn-Howard said voters should expect to be present in the caucus for about three hours. He said the Democrats’ process would have been too costly for Republicans.
“And so then we were left with a caucus,” Grahn-Howard said. “We’ve done caucuses before in 2012 and 1996. And so we just built a process that we felt was cleaner and more efficient than those years.”
Frustration over lack of legislative action
One of the proponents of getting rid of the primary was Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft, who told St. Louis Public Radio last month that he had concerns about the cost and purpose of the contest because there was nothing tying the delegates to the primary vote.
“If we’re going to have an election, the election needs to be the one that actually determines those delegates,” Ashcroft said. “And we need to make sure that every election we hold in Missouri, the people of Missouri’s votes count.”
Ashcroft said he tried to revive the primary with the stipulation that the result would determine how delegates are selected. He said he was especially concerned about a caucus being able to allow for military personnel to participate. Grahn-Howard said the legislature’s decision in 2022 “disenfranchised” Missouri residents who serve overseas.
Grahn-Howard also said Missouri Republicans have tied the result of the primary to how delegates are allocated since 2016.
He said the legislature shouldn’t have the ability to micromanage political party rules, especially since they’re private entities.
“And they can create the rules to determine how their delegates are allocated,” Grahn-Howard said.
Even though President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump will likely be the nominees, Ashcroft said the delegate selection processes are still important to the top race of the 2024 election cycle.
“We are better off with more everyday people like you and me participating, instead of just assuming that the people we’ve elected know what they’re doing,” Ashcroft said.
Both Grahn-Howard and Patterson said they hope that lawmakers switch back to a state-run primary for the 2028 presidential election, which probably will feature open races for both parties.
“I think just from the outcry from Democrats and Republicans and unaffiliated voters, that legislators will do the right thing and restore the primary,” Patterson said.
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What our Post expert thinks about Missouri vs. Alabama State
Alabama State has already dropped its two power-conference tests by an average of 32.5 points, and its defensive profile hasn’t suggested much resistance.
The Hornets bring two of the SWAC’s top scorers in Asjon Anderson and Micah Simpson, they are giving up 81.4 points per game and allowing opponents to shoot 45.3 percent from the floor.
Missouri’s rebounding edge should matter — the Tigers pull nearly 40 boards per game while Alabama State is giving up 37.4 a night and just surrendered 18 offensive rebounds to UT Martin.
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SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (KY3) – Road construction on Springfield’s northside is affecting access to the Southwest Missouri Humane Society.
MoDOT is realigning the intersection of Norton and Melville Road as part of the I-44 overpass project. The bridge work and intersection project are both impacting the animal shelter.
The shelter sits on Norton Road just west of where the work is happening. Visitors can only reach the shelter by taking the long way up West Bypass to Westgate Avenue, then onto Norton Road.
MoDOT says the intersection at Norton and Melville is supposed to be closed for two weeks. The bridge project, as a whole, is supposed to be completed by the end of the year.
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Organizers working to turn back Missouri’s congressional redistricting map spoke Tuesday about collecting signatures to put the effort to a vote by citizens.
People Not Politicians submitted more than 300,000 signatures Tuesday to the Missouri Secretary of State’s Office. The signatures hope to force a statewide vote on redistricting approved earlier this year by Missouri politicians.
KSHB 41 anchor Caitlin Knute spoke with one of the volunteers behind the effort.
Volunteer describes collecting signatures for petition on Missouri redistricting
“I think people in rural areas want to follow the Constitution, and I think it was pretty clear this was not done within the parameters of the Constitution,” volunteer Elizabeth Franklin said.
Redistricting typically occurs after a census every 10 years, but that wasn’t the case this year in Missouri. Critics on both sides of the aisle note that it splits Kansas City into three districts, lumping parts of the city in with much more rural areas.
A spokesperson for the Missouri Secretary of State’s office confirmed receipt of 691 boxes of signatures.
“The elections division will proceed with scanning, counting and sorting the sheets for verification by local election authorities,” the spokesperson said.
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