Missouri Ranked-Choice Voting Initiative (2020)
| Missouri Ranked-Choice Voting Initiative | |
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| Election date November 3, 2020 | |
| Topic Elections and campaigns | |
| Status Not on the ballot | |
| Type Constitutional amendment | Origin Citizens |
The Missouri Ranked-Choice Voting Initiative was not on the ballot in Missouri as an initiated constitutional amendment on November 3, 2020.
The ballot measure would have enacted a system of ranked-choice voting to be used in general elections for the offices of U.S. senator, governor, lieutenant governor, secretary of state, attorney general, state treasurer, and state auditor.[1]
Text of measure
Ballot title
The ballot title was as follows:[1]
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Do you want to amend the Missouri Constitution to:
Local governmental entities are estimated to have total one-time costs to upgrade or replace voting machines ranging from $0 to $37.8 million, and costs per election of an unknown amount totaling at least $25,000. State governmental entities estimate no savings and costs of an unknown amount.[2] |
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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
Winston Apple filed the ballot initiative on July 25, 2019. On September 3, 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
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Missouri Secretary of State, "2020 Initiative Petitions Approved for Circulation in Missouri," accessed September 4, 2019
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
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