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Category: Widgets: 2018 Missouri election

Missouri Amendment 1: Cleaning up Missouri politics

October 31, 2018 Gloria Shur Bilchik 2018 Election, Good government, Missouri region, Widgets: 2018 Missouri election One comment

Sponsors of Missouri Amendment 1—aptly nicknamed Clean Missouri—aims to increase fairness, integrity and transparency in Missouri politics. With the length and complexity of the

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gas tax

Gas tax [Proposition D] on MO ballot: I voted yes before I knew what I was doing

October 30, 2018 Gloria Shur Bilchik 2018 Election, Missouri region, St. Louis, Taxes, Transportation, Voting/Elections, Widgets: 2018 Missouri election One comment

Proposition D on Missouri’s 2018 midterm ballot asks voters whether to increase the tax on a gallon of gas. Should you vote for it? 

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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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How do I get a sample ballot in Missouri?

October 21, 2018 Gloria Shur Bilchik 2018 Election, Voting/Elections, Widgets: 2018 Missouri election 2 comments

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

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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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