COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) EDITOR’S NOTE: The Boone County totals on Amendments 4 and 5 have been corrected. LINK: Full results Columbia’s Proposition 1 squeaked by to win passage Tuesday, with “yes” beating “no” by just 85 votes. Proposition 1 is a 1% sales tax for police. With its passage, sales tax in some areas of
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) Secretary of State Denny Hoskins said Tuesday that a citizen-led referendum challenging a Republican-friendly map passed by the state legislature is “insufficient.” Hoskins made the announcement at a news conference in Jefferson City about an hour before his deadline to certify the petition challenging the “Missouri First” congressional map. Hoskins said
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) Jefferson City businessman Jake Vogel is the GOP nominee for Missouri’s Sixth Senate District. Six Republican hopefuls sought Missourians’ vote for the chance to advance from Tuesday’s primary race to the November general election. Republican Mike Bernskoetter has represented Camden, Cole, Miller, Moniteau and Morgan counties in the Missouri State Capitol
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) Gov. Mike Kehoe made a last-minute pitch to drum up Election Day support for his signature policy goal — phasing out the state income tax — as he talked to reporters after voting on Tuesday. Kehoe spoke with a gaggle of reporters outside the Masonic Lodge, where the Republican governor cast
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Primary Election Day is here — often one of the slower elections in terms of turnout. But not this year. Boone County’s clerk is predicting 40% turnout for the August primary, driven in large part by a public safety sales tax vote in Columbia. But statewide Constitutional amendments are also likely to drive large numbers
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) More than 5,300 people have voted early in the Aug. 4 election in Boone County as of 11 a.m. Friday. Boone County Clerk Brianna Lennon told ABC 17 News in an email on Friday that more than 4,000 people have voted since no-excuse absentee voting opened on July 21. Residents are able
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Voters are set to head to the polls and decide on Amendment 4, which would require approval of citizen-led petitions in every congressional district, prohibit foreign contributions and penalize petition fraud. Part of the proposed amendment would explicitly define the constitutional crime of petition signature fraud, covering actions like signature forgery, submitting
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The primary election is Tuesday, and the U.S. House district that you’ll vote in might have changed since the last one. Republican-led redistricting in 2005 made big changes to the map, drawing a large chunk of Mid-Missouri into the Fifth Congressional District and taking most of the region out of the Fourth Congressional District. The
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Political campaigns, like Republican state Senate candidate Rudy Veit’s, are using artificial intelligence in their political advertisements to get their message across and/or to disparage opponents. This week, Veit’s campaign launched advertisements using AI against another candidate, Jake Vogel. Both men are seeking the Republican nomination in Missouri’s Senate District 6, where
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Missouri’s newly drawn Fifth Congressional District will be a close watch as it could decide control of the U.S. House in November. The so-called “Missouri First Map” was signed into law by Gov. Mike Kehoe in September 2025 after passing during a special legislative session. Since then, the map has survived court
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Just a week remains until Missourians go to the polls to decide whether to give the General Assembly the power to roll back income taxes. Amendment 5 has drawn lots of interest, and voters still have plenty of questions after months of hearing competing claims about whether getting rid of income tax will jumpstart the
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) With about a week to go before Election Day, former Columbia Utilities Director David Sorrell is still leading in donations given to campaigns. Committees needed to submit finance reports to the Missouri Ethics Commission on Monday, eight days before the election. Sorrell leads funding this cycle with $25,819 in contributions. Some notable donations made
Continue Reading COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A group supporting the elimination of income tax within the state of Missouri has spent $12.9 million this election cycle. Amendment 5, which would phase out Missouri’s income tax and and expand sales and use taxes, will be decided by voters on Aug. 4. Filings for political campaigns and committees were required
Continue Reading Missouri’s 6th Senatorial District has been represented by Republican Mike Bernskoetter since 2019. As his time serving Camden, Cole, Miller and Moniteau counties comes to an end due to term limits, voters have six Republican hopefuls vying to fill the seat.
Seeking the nomination in a crowded GOP primary are candidates Amber Buckles, Derrick Spicer, Todd “Ike” Skelton, Lisa Thomas, Rudy Veit and Jake Vogel.
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COLUMBIA Mo. KMIZ Missouri state parks funding and soil and water conservation funding will be back on the ballot for the Aug. 4 election. Amendment 1 is an automatically recurring 10-year renewal of Missouri’s existing 1/10-cent statewide sales tax, which split-funds state parks and soil and water conservation efforts. The tax has won passage every
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Two Democrats and a Republican are looking to unseat Rep. Bob Onder in Missouri’s Third Congressional District. The district covers parts of 16 counties, including the southern half of Boone County, along with Callaway, Audrain, Montgomery and Monroe counties Incumbent Onder faces a Republican primary challenge from John Fraser of Columbia. On
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A candidate in the Camden County Prosecutor Republican primary was recently held in contempt in court by a judge. Lynne Brand is running for the prosecutor’s seat in the Aug. 4 primary against incumbent Richelle Grosvenor. Brand is listed as a defendant in a Sunshine Law case along with the county’s sheriff’s
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) Missouri Secretary of State Denny Hoskins has until Aug. 4 to certify or reject the referendum petition to put the 2025 Congressional map on the November ballot. In a statement to ABC 17 News, Hoskins said the 2025 map is the “law of the land.” “I am still verifying and certifying
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Missourians have enjoyed no-excuse absentee voting for many election cycles now, without evidence of any significant issues. The period to cast such ballots started Tuesday statewide. But that practice has come under fire by some powerful voices, namely President Donald Trump, who has supported an end to no-excuse absentee balloting as part of the SAVE
Continue Reading COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) No-excuse absentee voting opened Tuesday, giving all registered Boone County voters the chance to cast their ballots early in person. The Boone County Clerk’s Office says on its website that no-excuse absentee voting allows any registered voter in the county to cast a ballot in person just like on Election Day. No-excuse
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