Secretary of State hopeful touts voter engagement

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October 29, 2018 - 11:15 AM

There’s a reason transactions over the Internet continue to boom: They’re easy. And private.

Or at least in theory.

Which is why Brian McClendon, a co-founder of Google Earth and Google Maps, has had such success with KSVotes.org, his online voter registration site. In only a year’s time more than 23,400 Kansans have registered to vote there, with the highest percentage being 18- to 24-year-olds.

“Which is good,” McClendon said. “Now we just need to get them to vote.”

McClendon has coupled his IT expertise and passion for democracy in his bid for Kansas Secretary of State, running as a Democrat.

“Always a Democrat?” asks this reporter.

“No, not always. I was a Dole Republican as a youth, then an Independent for several years before just recently becoming a Democrat.”

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