Now, part of a new state election law allows people to vote in the two weeks prior to the election without an excuse like physical disability or travel on Election Day.

In the past, Missouri required a valid reason to vote absentee. March 21: In-person, no excuse absentee voting begins.March 8: The deadline for registering to vote before the primary election has passed.

KCUR 89.3 Kansas City voters will narrow the field of City Council hopefuls in the April 4 primary that determines which candidates advance to the June 20 general election. Here’s what you need to know to vote in Kansas City’s municipal election in April. District 4 now extends partially into the Northland.ĭistricts 3, 4, 5 and 6 south of the Missouri River also have new boundaries, with big impacts for Midtown, the Country Club Plaza and south Kansas City.Īlong with choosing City Council representation, voters on April 4 will consider three important ballot measures: one proposal to impose a local tax on marijuana sales, and two questions pertaining to a tax and room fee on short-term rentals, like Airbnbs, that have become controversial nuisances in some neighborhoods. District 2 is generally south of Barry Road. District 1 previously covered Clay County and a tiny part of Platte County, but now it covers neighborhoods generally north of Barry Road across both Platte and Clay counties. The biggest boundary change affected the Northland, which is now divided horizontally rather than vertically.

That means residents may be voting in a different district than they have in the past.

This year represents the first council election under Kansas City’s redistricting from the 2020 Census, so the six council boundaries look substantially different from the last council election in 1999.

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