Show-Me State Times

Ranked-choice voting fails to get on Missouri ballot, Snead calls method 'unwise policy that complicates voting'

By W.J. Kennedy | Aug 12, 2022

Much to the delight of voter integrity advocates, a ranked-choice voting initiative in Missouri in which voters rank candidates by preference on their ballots failed to garner the signatures necessary to appear on the November ballot.

Burlison pre-files legislation that requires voter ID, bans private money for election management

By W.J. Kennedy | Dec 10, 2021

Missouri could join Georgia, Florida and other states that have banned local election officials from accepting private funds to help underwrite the administration of elections, and require voter ID, under legislation that Sen. Eric Burlison (R-Battlefield) plans to introduce when the Legislature convenes Jan. 5.