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Incomplete voter registrations cleared from the books
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Barton County Courthouse - photo by file photo
Two years ago the Barton County Clerk’s office reported the registrations of more than 300 potential voters were on hold. This year, that number has been greatly reduced to thanks to a change in the law, according to Darin DeWitt, voter registration clerk in the Barton County Clerk’s Office.A rule proposed by Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach to toss out incomplete voter registrations after 90 days went into effect on Oct. 2, 2015. Since then, DeWitt said employees at the county clerk’s office have made doing that part of their routine.The total number of so-called “suspense voters” as of Jan. 9, 2014, was 315.