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No Democratic Primary in Rural Missouri [1]

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Date: 2024-03-19  

In an attempt to prove that the Democratic party doesn't represent non-metro communities, there will be no primary polling locations in 30 Missouri counties. This is the first year that the Missouri Democratic party is operating their own independent primaries, and they've managed to ostracize some of our most impoverished and neglected citizens.

In a statement to the Missouri Independent news website, a party official said they were unable to secure polling locations in many of the most remote counties, but that residents are free to drive a couple hours to vote in other counties.

The Missouri Republican party, reached for comment, said, "We didn't have any problem finding spots to hold our caucuses."

The abandoned folks live in counties along the Iowa border, the bootheel, south of Kansas City, and south-central Missouri. While mail-in ballots were available by request, these distant voters tend to be underprivileged and elderly, often lacking the internet access required to request a ballot, and with no ability or desire to travel long distances.

The Missouri Democratic party's inability to borrow courthouses, churches, community centers, parking lots, barns or hayfields, is quite a shortcoming, and provides 30 more examples of the party's disregard of rural Americans.

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