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Missouri Municipalities to Cooperate with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Initiative (2018)
| Missouri Municipalities to Cooperate with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Initiative | |
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| Election date November 6, 2018 | |
| Topic Immigration | |
| Status Not on the ballot | |
| Type Constitutional amendment | Origin Citizens |
The Missouri Municipalities to Cooperate with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Initiative was not on the ballot in Missouri as an initiated constitutional amendment on November 6, 2018.
The measure would have required municipalities to cooperate with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to detain, hold, and transfer aliens.[1]
Patricia Thomas, treasurer of the Missouri Republican Party, filed the ballot measure.
Text of measure
Ballot title
The ballot title was as follows:[2]
| “ | Do you want to amend the Missouri Constitution to provide that municipalities and their officials shall cooperate and comply with requests from United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials to detain, maintain custody of, or transfer any alien to ICE?
State and local government entities estimate no costs or savings from this proposal.[3] |
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Constitutional changes
- See also: Article VI, Missouri Constitution
The measure would have added a Section 34 to Article VI of the Missouri Constitution.[1]
Full text
The full text of the initiative is available here.
Path to the ballot
The state process
In Missouri, the number of signatures required to qualify an initiated constitutional amendment for the ballot is equal to 8 percent of the votes cast for governor in the previous gubernatorial election in six of the eight state congressional districts. Signatures must be filed with the secretary of state six months prior to the election.
The requirements to get an initiated constitutional amendment certified for the 2018 ballot:
- Signatures: The smallest possible requirement was 160,199 valid signatures. The actual requirement depends on the congressional districts in which signatures were collected.
- Deadline: The deadline to submit signatures was May 6, 2018.
Once the signatures have been filed with the secretary of state, the secretary copies the petition sheets and transmits them to county election authorities for verification. The secretary of state may choose whether the signatures are to be verified by a 5 percent random sample or full verification. If the random sampling projects between 90 percent and 110 percent of required signatures, a full check of all signatures is required. If more than 110 percent, the initiative is certified, and, if less than 90 percent, the initiative fails.
Details about the initiative
Patricia Thomas, treasurer of the Missouri Republican Party, filed the initiative on December 7, 2017.[1] The initiative was approved for circulation on January 12, 2018.[2] Signatures were not filed for the initiative.
See also
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Missouri Secretary of State, "Initiative 2018-315," December 7, 2017
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Missouri Secretary of State, "2018 Initiative Petitions Approved for Circulation in Missouri," accessed January 12, 2017
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
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