Politics & Government

Akin Changes Voter Registration to Wildwood In Prep for Senate Bid

U.S. Congressman Todd Akin said he moved and changed his voter registration from Town and Country.

After U.S. Rep. Todd Akin (R-Town and Country) announced on May 17 his bid for the U.S. Senate to unseat Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) he changed his voter registration from Town and Country to Wildwood.

Akin is currently serving his sixth term in Congress representing Missouri's 2nd district. He's looking at the 2012 Senate race.

"He changed his voter registration at the end of May," said Akin's Press Secretary Steve Taylor. "He's in the process of changing the automobile registration and all other things that apply. A  lot of things were at the Town and Country home. He's lived there for 50 years."

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According to a report in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch by Jake Wagman, Akin switched his registration the same day the Post-Dispatch questioned whether Akin was voting in the correct city.

Taylor said that the article was not the reason that Akin is making the move official with a change of address for voter registration.

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"Yes,  he did move his voter registration, but it has nothing to do with Wagman's story," Taylor said. "It had to do with the fact they completed the transition from one home to the next, and Town and Country approved the subdividing of the Akin property at the end of May."

Taylor said the home at 305 Conway Hill Rd. in Town and Country has been in the Akin family for decades and is owned by Todd Akin's father. Taylor said Todd Akin and his father decided to subdivide and raze the old Akin homestead, so in 2007, Todd Akin bought a house in Wildwood.

"The Akins have been living and transitioning from one place to another. They moved everything out of the old (Town and Country) residence and into the new Wildwood home," Taylor said. "They are going to be razing the old Akin homestead soon."

 Akin has also posted information about the move on his campaign website,

"Representative Todd Akin-Wildwood, that's his new official title," Taylor said.


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