While momentum to open up primaries is building among the country’s independent voters, some states — including Missouri — are facing action in the other direction.
While momentum to open up primaries is building among the country’s independent voters, some states — including Missouri — are facing action in the other direction.
In contested 2022 congressional and legislative elections, states with at least partially closed primaries blocked about two in five registered voters from casting ballots, a Lee Enterprises analysis found.