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Missouri Ranked Choice Voting and Changes in Composition for State Legislature Initiative (2022)
| Missouri Ranked Choice Voting and Changes in Composition for State Legislature Initiative | |
|---|---|
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| Election date November 8, 2022 | |
| Topic Electoral systems | |
| Status Not on the ballot | |
| Type Constitutional amendment | Origin Citizens |
The Missouri Ranked Choice Voting and Changes in Composition for State Legislature Initiative was not on the ballot in Missouri as an initiated constitutional amendment on November 8, 2022.
Measure design
The amendment would have changed the composition of the Missouri General Assembly. The measure would also have enacted a ranked choice voting system for elections to the Missouri General Assembly by removing the primary election for state legislators; allowing 10 ranked votes per voter for the general election of the state legislature.[1]
Text of measure
Full text
The full text of each version is below:
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 2022 ballot:
- Signatures: The smallest possible requirement was 171,592 valid signatures. The actual requirement depends on the congressional districts in which signatures were collected.
- Deadline: The deadline to submit signatures was May 8, 2022.
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 January 5, 2021. On February 22, 2021, Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft (R) cleared the initiative for signature gathering. Two other versions of the initiative were filed on March 9 and cleared for signature gathering on April 21, 2021.[1]
This initiative did not meet the signature requirements by the May 8, 2022 deadline.[2]
See also
Footnotes
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