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Absentee Voting Poised to Break Records

October 22, 2004
By: Wan Xu
State Capital Bureau

The election day is knocking the door, and absentee voting is way up. Wan Xu has that story.


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Officials for the Secretary of State said early voting won't happen in Missouri this year. However, absentee voting is currently allowed. Terri Durdaller, the communications director said the absentee voting in Missouri is going well.

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Contents: From what we have heard from our election authorities that absentee ballots are up this year, compared to previous years.

By 3 o'clock Thursday, Cole county had received 2,434 ballots. In 2000, they got a total of 2700 absentee ballots.

In Boone county, 3445 cards have been delivered for absentee voting, compared with only 1183 ballots in the last presidential election.

From the State Capitol, I am Wan Xu.