Through an analysis of Kansas voter registration data, The Beacon found that unaffiliated voters in Kansas, also known as independents, make up 38% of voters under the age of 40 — the largest portion of any party within that age range.
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Alexis Allison is a freelance data journalist in Columbia, Missouri. Follow her on Twitter @ByAlexisAllison.
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Safe at home? Missouri law fails to safeguard some abuse survivors who register to vote
The Safe at Home program — especially for registered voters — lacks a basic safeguard provided in many other states, including Kansas: Complete exclusion from public voter data. Furthermore, if a person registered to vote before enrolling in Missouri’s program, their information isn’t scrubbed once they do.
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Is a ‘blue wave’ coming for Kansas? Here’s what the data says
In Kansas, the share of registered Democrats grew from about 25% in January 2017 to 27% of registered voters by September 2020, or about 62,000 voters, The Beacon found. In that same period, the Republican share of the electorate remained at about 45%.
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Are you an ‘inactive voter’ in Missouri? Here’s what that means.
More than 30,000 registered voters within the Kansas City, Missouri, election jurisdiction are classified as inactive voters — otherwise registered voters who the local election authority was unable to locate or get in contact with before Election Day.