KOMU 8: “Protesters rally outside Missouri Capitol for Protect the Ballot initiative”

“Protesters gathered in front of the Missouri State Capitol building Wednesday morning in an attempt to make Missouri voters aware about protecting the ballot initiative.

The protest is in response to two proposed bills by the Missouri House which would alter the ballot initiative process.

Benjamin Singer, the Executive Director of Show Me Integrity, a bi-partisan movement that lead the protest, said the passing of the bills would make this already hard process almost impossible to work.

‘Right now it's already very difficult to pass a ballot imitative. Only about 1% of initiatives that are filed end up making it onto the ballot,’ Singer said.

Singer said they have to gather nearly 300,000 signatures around the state to get something on the ballot.

‘The legislature is trying to make it basically impossible to use the initiative process by raising the number of signatures to over half a million and increasing the voter threshold to a super-majority,’ Singer said.”

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