Ten days before the high-stakes 2018 midterm election in Missouri, Eric Fey, St Louis County’s director of elections, led a group of high-schoolers on
Author: Gloria Shur Bilchik
2018 Missouri ballot: What are these St. Louis County charter amendments about, anyway?
On their 2018 ballots, many voters in St. Louis County may be surprised to encounter a quartet of proposed County charter amendments–plus a fifth
MO voter ID update: No need for affidavits
The continuing, confusing saga of voter ID requirements in Missouri continues. On Friday, October 19, at 5 pm, the Missouri Supreme Court ruled that
Bingo amendment on the Missouri midterm ballot
On November 6, 2018, nestled on the ballot between three other amendments to the Missouri Constitution, four statewide propositions and a bunch of local
How do I get a sample ballot in Missouri?
Need a sample ballot? Many Missouri voters are worrying about the 2018 midterm ballot. We’ve been warned: It’s unusually long. It includes a slew
Confuse the Vote: Missouri’s cockamamie Voter ID Mess
Rock the Vote? Dance the Vote? How about Confuse the Vote? That’s the situation surrounding Voter ID in Missouri just three weeks before the
3 medical marijuana proposals on MO ballot: Compare and contrast
If you’re voting in Missouri on Nov. 6, 2018—and you are, aren’t you?—you’re going to find: not one, not two, but three proposals pertaining
Jason Kander’s PTSD, and what it says about America
In a remarkable act of self-awareness, courage and public accountability, rising Democratic star Jason Kander, 37, has published a letter revealing his personal struggle
Top Trump official publishes devastating op-ed in New York Times [anonymously]
The New York Times took the rare step, today, of publishing an anonymous Op-Ed essay. The author, an unnamed, senior White House official, delivers
Confusing the vote: 2018 midterms edition
With a few heartening exceptions, the trend in voting rights in America is toward suppression and trickery—with just 9 weeks to go before the