Clean Missouri Referendum 2018

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Clean missouri referendum 2018. The clean missouri campaign which is defending the 2018 ballot question at the polls in november has argued the legislature s wording was illegally misleading. 3 ballot for amendment 3 a proposed change to the state constitution that would repeal redistricting changes that missouri voters approved in 2018. The lawsuit argued that the ballot title of amendment 3 was misleading because it did not mention the elimination of the nonpartisan demographer which was the office established by amendment 1 to conduct legislative redistricting in the state. The fair map reforms in amendment 1 earned endorsements from republican independent and democratic reformers and endorsements from every major anti gerrymandering organization.

In 2018 voters overwhelmingly approved the clean missouri initiative which replaced bipartisan commissions with a non partisan state demographer to draw legislative boundaries based on the 2020. A cole county judge on monday ordered a new description to appear on the nov. The missouri court of appeals further rewrote a summary for a ballot initiative that would repeal a state legislative redistricting system approved by voters in 2018. The lawsuit against the ballot title was filed by petition circulators for clean missouri the campaign that sponsored missouri amendment 1 2018.

The ballot question was a top priority for the gop who said voters were confused when they signed off on the so called clean missouri initiative in 2018. Prior to 2018 maps were to be drawn by commissions appointed by the governor that focused on drawing compact shapes. Amendment 1 often referred to as clean missouri was put before voters in november 2018.