JEFFERSON CITY — Faith leaders and civil rights advocates warned voters about the deceptive nature and troubling details in the fine print of Amendment 3 in a virtual press event Thursday. Opposition to the deceptive…
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Springfield Business Leaders Call on Voters to Reject Amendment 3
Bipartisan opposition to Amendment 3 continues to grow in Springfield and across the state as the No on 3 campaign works to educate voters how politicians are trying to trick them with their deceptive gerrymandering…
#3on3: The Politicians won’t stop their dirty tricks
What makes Amendment 3 the most offensive and outrageous scheme is that politicians aren’t just trying to undo the will of voters — they’re trying to trick voters into putting an unprecedented gerrymandering scheme into our constitution….
St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Missouri’s champion for children takes the civil rights battle to nation’s capital
“They are trying to act as if children in the state don’t exist… They’re writing young people out of the process of democracy.” - Rev. Starsky Wilson Originally published in The St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Thinking…
Second Court: “Major Problems” in Legislators’ Dishonest Ballot Summary for Amendment 3
Read the full brief from civil rights leaders below. KANSAS CITY — The Western District Court of Appeals today ruled that politicians illegally tried to deceive voters about their Amendment 3 gerrymandering scheme, and ordered…
#3on3: Why there’s bipartisan opposition
The politicians pushing Amendment 3 know they can’t actually run on their gerrymandering plan. Its provisions are indefensible, and they know voters really want fair maps and a fair redistricting process. So, politicians are trying…
Kansas City Star: Politicians to “appeal judge’s ruling rewriting redistricting ballot measure”
“…lawmakers voted earlier this year to place a new amendment on the November ballot that repeals the voter-approved method and replaces it with a system similar to the old system, where partisan commissions drew the maps.”
AP Wire: Missouri judge finds redistricting measure misleading
“The decision by Cole County Circuit Judge Pat Joyce struck down the Legislature’s ballot summary for Amendment 3 as insufficient, unfair and partly false.”
Post-Dispatch: Cole County judge tosses ballot language for repeal of ‘Clean Missouri’
A Cole County judge on Monday ordered a new description to appear on the Nov. 3 ballot for Amendment 3, a proposed change to the state constitution that would repeal redistricting changes that Missouri voters approved in 2018.
#3on3: What the judge wrote about Amendment 3
The politicians pushing Amendment 3 know they can’t actually run on their gerrymandering plan. Its provisions are indefensible, and they know voters really want fair maps and a fair redistricting process. So, politicians are trying…