Amendment 4 is on next Tuesday's ballot in Missouri:
Ballotpedia summary:
The Amendment also only applies to citizen-driven petitions -- not legislature-driven ones like Amendment 4 itself. This Amendment should obviously have to win in each congressional district to have any validity, right? Yet that's not required by design.
I'll obviously be voting an emphatic NO on this one. Just thought I'd share in case anyone had gotten up to speed on this topic yet.
Ballotpedia summary:
Also per Ballotpedia, by this Amendment's standards, none of the most recent citizen-led constitutional amendments (medical marijuana, abortion, etc.) would have passed, as all of them were rejected by Missouri's 7th district (Springfield and surrounding areas):The amendment would require that citizen-initiated constitutional amendments receive a statewide majority of votes and a majority of votes in each congressional district in order to be approved. Currently, in Missouri, constitutional amendments are approved if a simple majority of voters approve the measure.
The Amendment also only applies to citizen-driven petitions -- not legislature-driven ones like Amendment 4 itself. This Amendment should obviously have to win in each congressional district to have any validity, right? Yet that's not required by design.
I'll obviously be voting an emphatic NO on this one. Just thought I'd share in case anyone had gotten up to speed on this topic yet.


