The Superior Express -

This year Kansas will be holding a 2024 Presidential Preference Primary Election. It is called a “preference” primary because it is an election where the vote totals are given to a political party to allocate delegates to candidates at the national convention. This is not a primary where the voters selected the party candidate. This Preference Primary takes an act by the Kansas legislature to be conducted, and has only been used in Kansas twice, in 1980 and 1992.

Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2024, is the deadline to register to vote or update voter registration information to participate in the Presidential Preference Primary and also the last day to apply for an advance voting mail ballot. Wednesday, Feb. 28, is the first day of advance voting. Monday, March 18, in-person advance voting ends at 12 p.m. Tuesday, March 19, is the Presidential Preference Primary Election day. All advance ballots by mail must be received by close of polls.

If you are 18 years of age and have never registered to vote, do so at the Jewell County Clerk’s office by Feb. 20. Also if you have changed your name or address since last registering to vote, you must re-register with your current name and address.

Voting is an American right established first in 1870 by the Fifteenth Amendment and then later allowing women to vote in 1920 with the Nineteenth Amendment and finally changing the age of voting to 18 in 1971 by the Twenty-sixth Amendment. So get registered and then vote.