October 2024

Voters casting ballots in the November election will decide if they want court fees to help support salaries and benefits for law enforcement personnel including sheriffs, former sheriffs, prosecuting attorneys, former prosecuting attorneys, circuit attorneys and former circuit attorneys.The ballot language asks voters if the Missouri Constitution should be amended to “provide that the administration of justice shall include the levying of costs and fees to support salaries and benefits for certain current and former law enforcement personnel?”According to the Secretary of States Office, the measure has no impact on taxes.

Voters in Missouri’s November election will decide women’s right to reproductive freedom and whether to reverse the state’s near total-ban on abortion with Amendment 3.The ballot language asks voters if they want to amend the state Constitution to: “establish a right to make decisions about reproductive health care, including abortion and contraceptives, with any governmental interference of that right presumed invalid; remove Missouri’s ban on abortion; allow regulation of reproductive health care to improve or maintain the health of the patient; require the government not to discriminate, in government programs, funding and other activities, against persons providing or obtaining reproductive health care; and allow abortion to be restricted or banned after fetal viability except to protect the life or health of the woman?”