Jay Ashcroft

Ashcroft said voter turnout is much higher in partisan elections for state and federal offices, and changing local and municipal elections to partisan could bring more people to the polls.

Moriah Renaud voted in the Rolla's 4th Ward in the November election, less than six months before she was elected in the 1st Ward, a possible violation of city rules.

Ashcroft is in favor of reinstituting Missouri's government-issued photo identification law and letting voters decide whether constitutional amendments should need a two-thirds majority instead of a simple majority.

Missouri lawmakers have made moves to undo voter-approved initiatives — and make it harder for constitutional amendments to be enacted. But efforts to curb the initiative petition process are getting bipartisan pushback.

Kehoe's decision to not run for the U.S. Senate, but instead governor, sets up a likely matchup in 2024 with Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft.

Whether they'll be able to hinges greatly on where they live and what changes, if any, local lawmakers are willing to make.

Missouri's election officials have tried for years to get rid of the state's excuse system for absentee balloting. While nothing is assured, they say 2021 may be the year when the idea gains momentum.

On Wednesday’s "St. Louis on the Air," Tony Rothert, litigation director of the ACLU of Missouri, discussed the legal victory his agency notched on behalf of No Bans on Choice and the impact it could have on other groups seeking to referendum the Legislature's actions.

Missouri isn't Pennsylvania when it comes to processing absentee ballots. But that doesn't mean elections officials here are against the idea of extending the five-day window for preparing absentee ballots to be counted.

Earlier this month, the Missouri Supreme Court rejected a challenge to Missouri’s law requiring absentee and mail-in ballots to be notarized.