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Missouri No Removal of Historic Memorials without Legislative Approval Initiative (2020)
| Missouri No Removal of Historic Memorials without Legislative Approval Initiative | |
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| Election date November 3, 2020 | |
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| Status Not on the ballot | |
| Type Constitutional amendment | Origin Citizens |
The Missouri No Removal of Historic Memorials without Legislative Approval Initiative was not on the ballot in Missouri as an initiated constitutional amendment on November 3, 2020.
The ballot measure would have required a vote of the state legislature to remove, relocate, rename, or alter a historic memorial located on public property. The ballot measure would have been known as the Right to Remember Amendment in the Missouri Constitution and declare that the state's policy is "to remember our nation's and state's historic conflicts, events, and figures by preserving the historical memorials and monuments in this state."[1]
Patricia Thomas, treasurer of the Missouri Republican Party, filed the ballot initiative. Thomas said she filed the initiative on behalf of Todd Graves, who was the chairperson of the Missouri Republican Party through January 2019.[2]
Text of measure
Ballot title
The ballot title would have been as follows:[1]
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Do you want to amend the Missouri Constitution to require that certain historic memorials of any age on public property, such as statues, names of schools, streets, bridges and buildings named or dedicated in honor of any historic conflict, entity, event, or figure, may not be removed, renamed, or otherwise changed in certain ways unless provided by law? State and local government entities estimate no costs or savings from this proposal.[3] |
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Full text
The full text of the measure is available here.
Path to the ballot
Process in Missouri
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 2020 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 3, 2020.
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.
Stages of this initiative
Patricia Thomas, treasurer of the Missouri Republican Party, filed the ballot initiative on December 21, 2018. On February 8, 2019, Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft (R) approved the initiative for signature gathering. Petitioners did not submit signatures by the May 3 deadline.[1]
See also
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Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Missouri Secretary of State, "2020 Initiative Petitions Approved for Circulation in Missouri," accessed February 11, 2019
- ↑ Springfield News-Leader, "Former GOP chief files petition to put ‘right-to-work’ in Missouri Constitution," February 13, 2019
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
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