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04.09.2009 9:00 pm

Partisans who mess with voters’ rights are playing with fire

The County Election, 1852. George Caleb Bingham. Saint Louis Art Museum

The County Election, 1852. George Caleb Bingham. Saint Louis Art Museum

Missouri Secretary of State Robin Carnahan published a detailed report last week saying that Missouri voters generally fared well at the polls last November.

That was no accident. Despite huge turnouts, troubles were…

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03.23.2009 9:00 pm

Missouri’s late coming to early voting

Early voting in Madison County, Illinois, in 2006 (David Carson/Post-Dispatch)

Early voting in Madison County, Ill., in 2006 (David Carson/Post-Dispatch)

Thirty-five states of all political hues — red, blue and purple — are providing voters with some convenient alternative to the Election Day crush. Not so Missouri — or at least not…

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11.09.2008 9:03 pm

Monday editorial: Polling place postmortem for St. Louis region

Chris Lee | Post-Dispatch

Chris Lee | Post-Dispatch

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Early returns are in on how well local polls were administered on Election Day. The report mainly is positive.

In the Metro East, voting appeared to be nearly problem-free. The national non-partisan advocacy group Election Protection recorded just 11…

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