voting rights

In Missouri, people who are incarcerated or are on parole or probation cannot vote until their full sentence is completed. One study estimated more than 95,000 Missourians are barred from voting because of those disenfranchisement laws.

Voter registration drives in Kansas have slowed to a trickle while a new election law is challenged in court, but Republicans are undeterred.

In Kansas, voter registration groups are suing to stop a new elections law. Some organizations have stopped doing voter drives for fear of charges being filed against their volunteers.

The Missouri legislature is considering a number of proposals that would change how ballot initiatives get before voters and the requirements needed to vote.

In the early 1900s, Sarah Lloyd Green was notorious for sticking it to the man as a feminist, suffragette and labor organizer in Kansas City. Her story isn't well known, but she was a champion for Black and white laundry workers and even started a waitress union.

How did drawing congressional districts become such a political battle?

Listeners share their Kansas City Chiefs game day traditions and how apportionment turned into redistricting and gerrymandering.

The former Army captain and Missouri secretary of state shares updates about his mental health, political career and more.

Legal contests underway in Kansas and Missouri are likely continue well past Election Day.

Has record turnout for early balloting affected in-person voting, and Kansas and Missouri are involved in election lawsuits.

This year could see a surge in provisional ballots, a special fail-safe ballot designed to ensure that every vote counts, because some voters are worried their mail-in ballot could get lost.

Voter suppression has a long history, according to political scientist Darius Watson, and it is constantly taking on new forms.