Accident reported on westbound I-70 near 18th Street
Month: August 2018
Early voting ends at noon today
Early voting ends at noon Monday, Aug. 6, for the primary election in Wyandotte County.
There are three early voting sites, the Election Office at 850 State Ave., the Kansas City, Kansas, Police Department South Patrol station at 2100 Metropolitan Ave., and the Eisenhower Recreation Center, 2901 N. 72nd St.
The three sites will be open from 8 a.m. to noon on Monday, Aug. 6.
The primary election is a party election, where voters who are registered to a party will have the opportunity to vote on that party’s candidates. Those who are unaffiliated will have an opportunity to declare a party at the time they vote.
Some of the contested races in the primary include the governor’s contest, the U.S. House, 3rd District, race and a contest for Wyandotte County District Court judge.
There is one nonpartisan question on the primary ballot this year – the three-eighths-cent sales tax in Kansas City, Kansas. That question will be on every ballot, and there will be a special ballot with that question only for those who are unaffiliated voters and don’t want to declare a party, or registered Libertarians.
The sales tax renewal will go toward public safety, including police, fire and infrastructure needs such as roads and sidewalks. The Unified Government’s leaders have said that since it is a renewal of an existing tax that residents are already paying, it will not cause residents’ tax bills to increase.
The three-eighths cent sales tax renewal is only for Kansas City, Kansas, voters, and it will be on the back of most of the paper ballots.
Mail ballots
Ballots that are being returned by mail need to be postmarked by 7 p.m. Aug. 7. If someone hand-delivers a mail ballot to the Election Office at 850 State Ave., it needs to be in their office by 7 p.m. Aug. 7.
Voting on Election Day
Polling places are open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Election Day, Tuesday, Aug. 7.
To find out information about your polling place, visit www.wycovotes.org. The Voter View feature at https://myvoteinfo.voteks.org/ includes the location of individual polling places.
For more information, visit the website of the Election Office at http://wycovotes.org/.
The Wyandotte County Election Office phone number is 913-573-8500, and its email is [email protected].
See election stories under the “Election 2018” tab at https://wyandotteonline.com/category/election-2018/.
Police investigate homicide in 500 block of South 12th
Kansas City, Kansas, police are investigating a homicide about 8:45 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 5, in the 500 block of South 12th Street, according to a police spokesman.
When they arrived at the location, officers found a victim, a man in his 30s, who had been shot, the spokesman stated.
The victim was taken to a hospital with life-threatening injuries, and died there, according to the spokesman.
The identity of the victim will be released upon positive identification and family notification, the spokesman stated.
The Kansas City, Kansas, Police Department’s Criminal Investigations Unit is investigating. Anyone with information is asked to call the TIPS hotline at 816-474-TIPS.