Tuesday deadline for Secretary of State’s Office to verify initiative petition signatures
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ)
Tuesday is the deadline for the Secretary of State's Office to determine if initiative petitions have enough valid signatures to be on the ballot in November.
May was the deadline for people to submit signatures on their signed petitions for the 2024 election cycle. Thousands of signatures were turned in for petitions on reproductive health care, sports betting, minimum wage increase and a casino development near the Lake of the Ozarks.
To submit their paper work, petitioners had to show the number of pages per county and contact information for each petition. In the process of the Secretary of State's Office of checking valid signatures, it will inventory every petition page by county, documenting any missing or duplicate pages.
Petition pages are then copies and distributed to local election authorities for signature verification. The Secretary of State's Office can either verify every signature or use random sampling and instructions to verify.
If all signatures are verifies, the petitions will appear on the ballot in November.
