• About Us
  • Advertise
  • Contact Us
  • Privacy Policy
  • Pickem Terms and Conditions
Friday, May 23, 2025
The Platte County Landmark Newspaper
  • Home
  • Local News
  • Opinion
  • Landmark Pickem!
    • Weekly Pickem Updates
    • Results by Week
    • The Leaderboard
    • Pickem Rules and Help
  • Landmark Live!
  • Looking Backward
  • es_MXSpanish
  • Home
  • Local News
  • Opinion
  • Landmark Pickem!
    • Weekly Pickem Updates
    • Results by Week
    • The Leaderboard
    • Pickem Rules and Help
  • Landmark Live!
  • Looking Backward
  • es_MXSpanish
No Result
View All Result
The Platte County Landmark Newspaper
No Result
View All Result

Nearly one-third of local voters chose the early option

Ivan Foley by Ivan Foley
November 5, 2024
in Headlines
Early voting in Platte County

A long line of people could be seen taking advantage of early voting on the final Saturday prior to Election Day. Despite overcast weather conditions, at times the line on Saturday, Nov. 2 extended nearly two blocks. Platte County Board of Elections officials say more than 32 percent of active registered voters in the county took advantage of the two-week early voting period prior to the Tuesday, Nov. 5 election. Ivan Foley/Landmark photo

9
SHARES
228
VIEWS
Share on FacebookShare on TwitterShare via Email

MORE THAN 23,000 VOTED EARLY IN PLATTE COUNTY

The two-week early voting period wrapped up in Platte County at 5 p.m. on Monday, Nov. 4. And the numbers are impressive, if not staggering.

RelatedNews

Park University notes 150 years of history

Amenities being added to Park at Platte Meadows

Police have suspect in string of Platte City burglaries

The Platte County Board of Elections tells The Landmark that 23,295 people took advantage of the absentee voting (regular absentees plus the two-week no excuse absentee period) option. That is more than 32 percent of the active registered voters in Platte County.

This means that by Election Day, nearly one-third of county voters had already cast ballots.

By Friday, Nov. 2 at about 1 p.m., 18,469 Platte Countians had taken part in early voting at the Platte County Board of Elections, located at 2600 NW Prairie View Road in Platte City. On Saturday, the early voting was offered from 8 a.m. to noon and even with cool and overcast weather conditions, the line of voters at times extended from the doors of the board of elections office about a block and half or two blocks down the sidewalk along Prairie View Road.

This cycle was the first presidential election in which no-excuse absentee voting was an option in Missouri.

Platte County voter turnout for the 2020 presidential election was 82.67 percent. Absentee turnout in the 2020 presidential election, the COVID year, was 26.5 percent.

“The election of 2020 was extraordinary for the amount of mail-in absentee ballots cast and the general interest in absentee voting due to the pandemic,” said Chris Hershey, director for the Platte County Board of Elections.

Early voting turnout was so strong this year that Platte County officials will be discussing the possibility of offering a second location for early voting in the future.

“Providing a second location has been brought up with our board and there is a plan to discuss it at our next meeting. I doubt we see a turnout like this until 2026 so there is a bit of time to plan,” Hershey told The Landmark on Tuesday.

Regular voting opened at 6 a.m. today (Tuesday, Nov. 5) at the usual polling sites throughout Platte County. Voting continues until 7 p.m. If you are standing in line by 7 p.m. elections officials are mandated to allow you to cast your ballot, even if you won’t be finished with the process by 7 p.m.

Tags: electionsplatte cityplatte county
Ivan Foley

Ivan Foley

Ivan Foley, longtime owner/publisher of the Platte County Landmark, is a past winner of the national Gish Award for courage, tenacity and integrity in rural journalism, presented by the Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues at the University of Kentucky. He lives in Platte County not far from KCI Airport.

Related Posts

45 Years Ago–May 23, 1980

by Ivan Foley
May 22, 2025
0

Former President Gerald Ford, in a Platte County appearance Saturday, described President Jimmy Carter as a man who “tries to make himself a hero out of disasters he has created” and likened him to an arsonist “who starts fires and...

30 Years Ago–May 25, 1995

by Ivan Foley
May 22, 2025
0

Joseph Gates had always told his wife, Juanita, and their nine children that he would buy Juanita a new car if he won the Missouri Lottery. So when he came home from work on May 14 and announced that a...

15 Years Ago–May 26, 2010

by Ivan Foley
May 22, 2025
0

Riverside police opened a homicide investigation this week after entering an apartment to check the welfare of a man who had reportedly failed to appear at his place of employment for several days. The man was found dead in his...

Letter to the Editor

Words about Randy

by Landmark Digital
May 22, 2025
0

EDITOR: First of all my sincere condolences to you and your entire family on the loss of your brother, Randy. When I got your paper yesterday I immediately opened it to the middle, which I never do, and saw your...

Next Post
Barley & Vine in Platte City

Platte City's Barley & Vine named 'Best New Brewery'

Popular News

  • Surgery Center of Northland

    Surgery Center of Northland being built in Platte City

    50 shares
    Share 20 Tweet 13
  • Police have suspect in string of Platte City burglaries

    25 shares
    Share 10 Tweet 6
  • A critical injury in crash on Hwy. 152

    169 shares
    Share 68 Tweet 42
  • KC’s curfew, backyard chickens, selfie stations

    9 shares
    Share 4 Tweet 2
  • ‘Guilt by association’ ends appointment talk

    6 shares
    Share 2 Tweet 2
  • About Us
  • Advertise
  • Contact Us
  • Privacy Policy
  • Pickem Terms and Conditions
Call us at 816-858-0363

Copyright © 2019-2020 The Platte County Landmark Newspaper - All Rights Reserved

No Result
View All Result
  • Subscribe Online
  • Home
  • Local News
  • Opinion
  • Landmark Pickem
    • Results by Week
    • The Leaderboard
    • Pickem Rules and Help
  • Landmark Live!
  • Looking Backward
  • es_MXSpanish

Copyright © 2019-2020 The Platte County Landmark Newspaper - All Rights Reserved