Seventy-six percent of Missouri’s registered voters are predicted to vote in the Nov. 4 General Election, Missouri Secretary of State Robin Carnahan announced Monday.
If the 76 percent prediction is met, more than 3.2 million votes will be cast in the election. There are a record-setting 4,205,774 Missourians registered to vote, which includes more than 340,000 first-time voters.
A large portion of the new voters are younger Missourians. Nearly 150,000 of the first-time registrants are 18-24 years old, which is more than double any other age group. In both Kansas City and St. Louis City, 40 percent of the new registrants are 18-24 years old.
“Seeing so many young people around the state who are interested in this election is a wonderful thing for the future of Missouri and our country,” said Carnahan.
Since 2005, Carnahan has overseen the creation of Missouri’s first statewide voter registration database. This system automatically verifies the information of each new voter against state and federal databases to confirm the identity of the voter. Over the past four years, the statewide database has allowed election officials to remove duplicates, deceased persons and felons from the rolls.