Local civil rights leaders were among those who called for measures this week, including expanded absentee voting by mail, intended to protect people’s ability to vote amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Missouri secretary of state, however, has said it would take a change of law in order for there to be an expansion of absentee voting.
Nimrod Chapel Jr., president of the Missouri State Conference of the NAACP, and the Rev. Cassandra Gould, executive director of Missouri Faith Voices, were among those in the Missouri Voter Protection Coalition that called in a news release Monday for expanded absentee voting, “bolstered online voter registration,” advance voting before Election Day, polling place accommodations and “robust voter assistance and education.”
