(The Center Square) – The orchestrated parade of rental trucks delivering bank boxes of signed petitions to the Missouri secretary of state’s office ended on Friday, the final business day before a May 5 constitutional deadline.
Organizations desiring to get a measure on the November ballot gathered signatures for the last few months. Signatures of 8% of legal voters in any six of Missouri’s eight congressional districts, or approximately 171,000 voters, must be gathered and certified by Republican Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft’s office to get an initiative on the ballot to change the state constitution.
Organizations submitted signatures to allow voters to legalize abortion, sports wagering and increase the minimum wage and mandate paid sick leave.
Missourians for Constitutional Freedom submitted 380,159 signatures for an initiative to legalize abortion, according to a media release from the organization. After the organization submitted petitions to change the state’s abortion laws last year,
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