

The language, which would be the first item in the ballot description, is icing but when the rest of the product is bad, it doesn’t become a cake, said Rep. John Ashcroft, a Republican, on the sanctity of the initiative process and challenged what has been called “ballot candy” in the measure restating that only citizens can vote in Missouri. Mike Parson calls an earlier special election.ĭuring debate, Democrats cited 30-year-old comments from former Gov. If approved, it would be on the November 2024 ballot unless Gov. The measure needs one more vote in the state Senate. The current threshold is a simple majority and has been since the state was created in 1821. On Tuesday morning, the Missouri House voted 107-55 to pass a measure to set the majority needed to pass amendments at 57%. A proposal making it harder to pass constitutional amendments, which one Democrat called “dog poop with icing,” is one step away from a statewide ballot.
