Show-Me Abortion Vote Showdown 2024

Initiative petition progress confronts GOP rule-changing opposition along with a campaign 2024 November climax . . . Here are some of the deets and links to more info:

Missouri voters will likely soon be asked by the lawmakers they elected to strip themselves of some power to put initiative petitions on the ballot — to take action when politicians won’t.

Voters could be asked to place further restrictions on the already difficult, and costly, job of passing an initiative petition.

One proposal would raise the number of signatures to put something on the ballot. On top of that, it raises the margin a petition would need to pass. That’s a House proposal. A similar proposal in the Senate would raise the threshold for a measure to pass, but not the signatures needed to put a question to voters.

Conservative lawmakers see the measures as the most surefire way to block Missouri voters from enshrining the right to an abortion in the state’s constitution in November.

Read more via www.TonysKansasCity.com links . . .

Lawmakers want your permission to weaken voters' ability to change the Missouri constitution

Politicians pushing for the change say that outside groups have too much influence over ballot measures in Missouri. But their proposals could make that influence more powerful.

Missouri voters likely won't see abortion legalization ballot question until November

An abortion rights group has raised millions of dollars and recruited a large number of volunteers for an amendment to legalize abortion up to fetal viability. But unless Missouri's Secretary of State uses an unusual procedure to speed up counting petition signatures, it won't make it on the August primary ballot.

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