Boone County Clerk Brianna Lennon, right, checks in a voter Oct. 23 at the Boone County Government Center in Columbia (Rudi Keller/Missouri Independent).Missouri election officials say brisk early voting could push Tuesday’s turnout close to — or beyond — the state record for a nonpresidential election.
The benchmark is 2018, when 2,442,306 Missourians cast ballots. Secretary of State Denny Hoskins expects about 55% of the state’s 4.4 million registered voters to participate, spokeswoman Anne Marie Moy said in a text to The Independent.
That would mean about 2.42 million ballots, just short of the 2018 total. A slightly higher turnout rate could set a new record…