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Amendment 6 Early Voting Period Amendment. Would establish a six day long early voting period. Failed [8] 416,447 (29.70%) 985,966 (70.30%) Amendment 10 Gubernatorial Budgetary Recommendations Amendment. Would restrict the governor's power to use and estimate public funds in the budget. Passed [9] 791,099 (56.80%) 601,699 (42.20%)
The U.S. Congress enacted major amendments to the Voting Rights Act of 1965 in 1970, 1975, 1982, 1992, and 2006. Each of these amendments coincided with an impending expiration of some of the Act's special provisions, which originally were set to expire by 1970. However, in recognition of the voting discrimination that continued despite the Act ...
The Thirteenth Amendment (1865) prohibits slavery "except as a punishment for crime"; the Fourteenth Amendment (1868) grants citizenship to anyone "born or naturalized in the United States" and guarantees every person due process and equal protection rights; and the Fifteenth Amendment (1870) provides that "[t]he right of citizens of the United ...
In the waning hours of the legislative session, Missouri Republican lawmakers voted to place Amendment 7 on the ballot, largely arguing that ranked-choice voting was too complicated and would ...
The Twenty-third Amendment, restoring U.S. Presidential Election after a 164-year-gap, is the only known limit to Congressional "exclusive legislature" from Article I-8-17, forcing Congress to enforce for the first time Amendments 14, 15, 19, 24, and 26.
Missouri voters approved a ballot measure enshrining abortion rights in the state constitution, NBC News projects, effectively undoing the state’s near-total abortion ban and delivering a ...
More than 1,800 volunteers collected signatures across Missouri in an effort to put abortion rights on the ballot, according to a press release. ... Missouri and all eight congressional districts ...
Iowa restores the voting rights of felons who completed their prison sentences. [59] Nebraska ends lifetime disenfranchisement of people with felonies but adds a five-year waiting period. [62] 2006. The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was extended for the fourth time by President George W. Bush, being the second extension of 25 years. [64]