Editorial: Missouri makes it easier to vote. Wait ... what? : Stltoday

Editorial: Missouri makes it easier to vote. Wait ... what? : Stltoday

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Mr. Kander’s new website, (www.sos.mo.gov/votemissouri) allows voters to either update their existing registration if they’ve moved, or start the process from scratch.

“In this day and age, people just expect a certain amount of convenience whether they are dealing with state government or anything else,” Mr. Kander told us.

Legal authority for the new website, which will accept electronic signatures as legally valid, actually comes from a state law passed in 2003.

That was a different era in Missouri. Leading Republicans actually advocated for early voting a decade ago. They included then-Secretary of State Matt Blunt and then-House Speaker Catherine Hanaway.