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Missouri Proportional Representation in U.S. House Initiative (2018)
| Missouri Proportional Representation in U.S. House Initiative | |
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| Election date November 6, 2018 | |
| Topic Elections and campaigns | |
| Status Not on the ballot | |
| Type State statute | Origin Citizens |
The Missouri Proportional Representation in U.S. House Initiative was not on the ballot in Missouri as an initiated state statute on November 6, 2018.
The measure would have created a system of proportional representation for electing members of the United States House of Representatives. The measure would have created one at-large congressional district from which all of the state's representatives in the U.S. House would be elected. Voters would have voted for a political party's ordered list of candidates, rather than for one candidate, and the number of officials elected off the list would have reflected the proportion of votes the list received.[1]
Text of measure
Ballot title
The ballot title was as follows:[2]
| “ | Do you want to amend Missouri law regarding the election of members of the U.S. House of Representatives as follows:
The state and local governments could incur unknown additional election-related costs that could be significant.[3] |
” |
Full text
The full text of the initiative is available here.
Path to the ballot
Supporters of the initiative were required to collect a number of signatures equivalent to 5 percent of the 2016 gubernatorial vote in six of the eight state congressional districts. This means that the minimum possible number of valid signatures required was 100,126. Signatures needed to be filed with the secretary of state six months prior to the election on November 6, 2018. Six months prior to the election was May 6, 2018.
Winston Apple proposed the initiative.[1] A petition for the initiative was approved for circulation on May 5, 2017.[2] Signatures were not filed for the initiative.
See also
- Missouri 2018 ballot measures
- 2018 ballot measures
- Laws governing the initiative process in Missouri
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Missouri Secretary of State, "Petition 2018-193," March 31, 2017
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Missouri Secretary of State, "2018 Initiative Petitions Approved for Circulation in Missouri," accessed May 10, 2017
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
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