JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) Cole County had already recorded more than 13,000 votes by Tuesday morning, with election officials estimating voter turnout could reach between 40% and 55% by the end of Election Day. The Cole County ballot includes state and local races and issues. Across Missouri, voters will decide on four proposed constitutional amendments
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Election Day is here, and Missouri voters will make some big policy decisions. One of them is Amendment 3, which would ban abortion and transgender medical care for minors. This Amendment 3 would overturn an amendment bearing the same number that was approved by Missouri voters in 2024. Millions have been spent by those who
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) The candidates for Missouri’s 60th House District say state lawmakers should examine privacy concerns surrounding Flock cameras and address education funding, while affordability remains a top concern they hear from voters. Republican Shane Kampeter and Democrat Suzanne Luther are running in Tuesday’s general election. House District 60 covers part of Cole
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) The candidates running to take over a seat currently held by term-limited State Rep. Rudi Veit (R-Wardsville) have different viewpoints on the state’s congressional map controversy and how to properly fund public education. Two candidates are running to fill the House District seat. The Republican candidate is former Jefferson City Mayor
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Missouri officials are reassuring voters of election security ahead of next week’s midterm election. “There’s a number of safeguards that we have in place, not just for the security of the machines, but also the security of the ballots,” Boone County Clerk Brianna Lennon said. “We have a chain of custody on
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) Jefferson City voters will decide next Tuesday whether to double the city’s existing public safety sales tax to help fund police and fire department salaries, benefits and equipment. Voters approved the quarter-cent sales tax in 2021. The tax generates 25 cents for every $100 spent on taxable purchases in Jefferson City
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The fall election is eight days away and committees were required to file financial reports with the Missouri Ethics Commission on Monday. Finance reports from multiple groups for and against Amendment 3 show $32.1 million has been spent so far. Election Day is Tuesday, Nov. 3. Amendment 3 aims to reinstate an
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Boone County Jail is overcrowded, and it’s costing the county millions to house detainees in other county jails across the state. Sheriff Dwayne Carey’s solution is to pass a 3/8-cent sales tax to build a new jail that would be more than twice the size of the current jail. The current
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Missouri’s no-excuse absentee voting begins Tuesday and ends Nov. 2, allowing voters to cast their ballots in person before election day on Nov. 3. Voters can cast their ballots in person at the Boone County Government Center from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Saturday. Voters do not need to sign
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MORGAN COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) Voters in the Gravois Fire Protection District will decide on Nov. 3 whether to approve a one-percent sales tax known as Proposition Fire. Fire Chief Dustin Hancock said the district needs more revenue as calls increase, costs rise and positions remain unfilled. The district serves parts of Morgan and Camden counties.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Millions of dollars are being raised and spent in the fight over Missouri’s abortion policy. Thursday was the quarterly deadline for committees to file with the Missouri Ethics Commission over money raised and spent during the election cycle. Groups involved in the debate over Amendment 3 were among the many groups to
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A group supporting a measure to build a new jail in Boone County has raised $46,045.71 this election cycle, according to the October quarterly report to the Missouri Ethics Commission. Proposition L is a proposed 3/8-cent sales tax that would be used to build a new jail, if passed, and will expire
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Missouri Amendment 8 would place rules for county sheriffs in the state Constitution, including how sheriffs are elected, what duties they perform, how they staff their offices and how they can be removed. Missouri voters will decide whether to approve the amendment on Nov. 3. Most counties already elect sheriffs to four-year
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Amendment 6, proposed by Respect Missouri Voters, will appear on the November ballot, and would limit legislators’ power to overturn laws enacted by direct vote of the people. The ballot language that will appear before voters reads as follows: expand the initiative and referendum petition process by making it a fundamental right;
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February 2025 The Amendment 6 campaign starts to gather signatures. May 3, 2026 Respect Missouri Voters submits 367,741 signatures from all 114 Missouri counties and the City of St. Louis to the Secretary of State’s Office. Secretary of State Denny Hoskins has until 5 p.m. Aug. 4 to certify the signatures. Respect Missouri Voters kicks
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Despite what the temperatures have been telling us, November is just a couple of weeks away, and there’s an election on the first Tuesday. In Missouri, the ballot is crowded with five statewide issues on a variety of topics. Some are well-publicized. Others, not so much. Among them is Amendment 3, which would undo the
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Former Missouri Attorney General and former Co-Deputy Director of the FBI Andrew Bailey filed paperwork on Tuesday to form a political action committee that supports a ballot initiative. Bailey was listed as the treasurer of “Vote Yes On Amendment 3,” which as it the name implies is supporting the passage of Amendment
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Two people in Boone County asked the County Clerk’s Office to remove their names from voter rolls after they were flagged by the Missouri Secretary of State’s Office using a federal database, Clerk Brianna Lennon said Tuesday. The two were among 33 people whose names were included on a spring list of
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Plenty of people, on both sides of the political aisle, are unhappy about an ad campaign produced by the Trump administration and funded with taxpayer money. A firm that tracks TV advertising reports the campaign has already cost at least $2.5 million, with $20 million allocated from public funds. Multiple Republican senators have criticized the
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Cole County judge on Wednesday dismissed a case that was filed by the losing candidates of a primary election. Brett Hueffmeier, Micah Beebe, Jana Morris, Michael Morris and Peter Smedile filed a lawsuit on earlier this month against Secretary of State Denny Hoskins, candidate Rick Brattin and the state’s Republican party
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