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Everything you want to know about the Missouri 2018 ballot, but were afraid to ask

October 25, 2018 Bill Kesler 2018 Election, Missouri region, Voting/Elections, Widget: Missouri 2018 midterm Leave a comment

The Missouri 2018 ballot is a monster. So much to vote on, so little time: Candidates, the dreaded judges’ retentions, plus amendments to the

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charter amendments

2018 Missouri ballot: What are these St. Louis County charter amendments about, anyway?

October 24, 2018 Gloria Shur Bilchik 2018 Election, Missouri region, Voting/Elections, Widgets: 2018 Missouri election 2 comments

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

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voter ID

MO voter ID update: No need for affidavits

October 22, 2018 Gloria Shur Bilchik 2018 Election, Missouri region, Voting/Elections, Widgets: 2018 Missouri election 2 comments

The continuing, confusing saga of voter ID requirements in Missouri continues. On Friday, October 19, at 5 pm, the Missouri Supreme Court ruled that

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bingo

Bingo amendment on the Missouri midterm ballot

October 22, 2018 Gloria Shur Bilchik 2018 Election, Missouri region, States, Voting/Elections, Widget: Missouri 2018 midterm, Widgets: 2018 Missouri election 2 comments

On November 6, 2018, nestled on the ballot between three other amendments to the Missouri Constitution, four statewide propositions and a bunch of local

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voter ID

Confuse the Vote: Missouri’s cockamamie Voter ID Mess

October 17, 2018 Gloria Shur Bilchik 2018 Election, Democracy, Missouri region, Voting/Elections, Widget: Missouri 2018 midterm, Widgets: 2018 Missouri election One comment

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

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medical marijuana

3 medical marijuana proposals on MO ballot: Compare and contrast

October 14, 2018 Gloria Shur Bilchik 2018 Election, Health care, Missouri region, Widgets: 2018 Missouri election One comment

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

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McCaskill-Hawley

Trying to cut through the B.S. in Missouri’s U.S. Senate Race

October 12, 2018 Arthur Lieber 2018 Election, Campaigns, Candidates, Democracy, Democrats, Missouri region, Widgets: 2018 Missouri election One comment

Let me suggest ways in which at least one candidate, McCaskill could make her campaign more honest, spend far less money, and do the voters a real service. Here are some proposed talking points for Claire to say:

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McCaskill

McCaskill Needs to Vote Against Kavanaugh

September 13, 2018 Reece Ellis 2018 Election, Missouri region, Supreme Court [SCOTUS], Uncategorized Leave a comment

The Missouri Senate race is tied and, in a scene so dramatic that it could be made into a film, we just so happen

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High school

St. Louis High School Democrats endorse candidates in area primaries

August 6, 2018 Maggie Hannick 2018 Election, Activism, Candidates, Missouri region, Voting/Elections, Youth issues Leave a comment

As a lifelong Democrat and now a high schooler, I have realized just how many of us there are in St. Louis, especially in

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VanOstran

Cort VanOstran: Is he the Democrat who can defeat Ann Wagner?

July 17, 2018 Claire Stolze 2018 Election, Candidates, Democrats, Missouri region, Widgets: Candidates 2018 Leave a comment

Cort VanOstran is a candidate who is clearly thinking past the August 2018 Democratic primary. When we interviewed him last week, it seemed obvious

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