Associcated Press
Election officials are projecting
that 23 percent of Missouri voters will turnout for next week‘s
presidential primary.
Secretary of State Robin Carnahan is encouraging people to vote
in the primary _ even though the results won‘t count for awarding
delegates to the Republican National Convention.
The state Republican Party has chosen to allot its presidential
delegates based on the results of caucuses that will begin in
mid-March. Under national party rules intended to prevent a crush
of early primaries, Missouri Republicans could have risked losing
half their presidential delegates if they had used a February
primary to award delegates.
Missouri law still requires a presidential primary to be held on
February 7th, but it does not require political parties to use its
results for awarding delegates.
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