Akin Moves, Changes Voter Registration

On May 17, Republican Representative Todd Akin announced his bid for the U.S. Senate to unseat Democrat Claire McCaskill in 2012. Akin represents  and is currently serving his sixth term as a U.S. Congressman representing the 2nd district.

Now Akin is reportedly moving from Town and Country to Wildwood and has changed his voter registration to reflect his change in residence.

"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."

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 told Patch that the article is not the reason that Akin is moving.

"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 in 2007, Todd Akin bought another home 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.