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Secretary of State Jason Kander office compiled an estimate that not quite 40% of Missouri voters would go to the polls for the mid term election on November 4, 2014, and cast about 1.6 million ballots.
The key question for Missouri state politics is whether Republicans will retain their supermajority status in the House. Several Republicans think they will actually grow their numbers.
Here is what one political scientist at the University of Missouri had to say about it:
Missouri House races headline next week election
Local races also have great importance.
In the heart of the state, a Republican challenger is trying to unseat a Democrat who has been a judge in the Cole County Circuit for 20 years. Pat Joyce is the only Democrat in the circuit, and outside groups have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars backing her Republican opponent, Jefferson City Prosecutor Brian Stumpe.
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Another race of statewide importance is that for St. Louis County Executive. Embattled Democrat incumbent Charlie Dooley was defeated in the primary by Councilman Steve Stenger, who faces outgoing House Budget Copatagonia coupons free shippingmmittee Chairman Rick Stream. Stream vote count in August doesn look favorable, but he has been backed by a group of black political leaders.
The race matters for all of Missouri if only because of economics: a recent study of the contribution of each county to the state economy shows St. Louis County holds the greatest share at nearly 19 percent, and four of the top ten counties are in the St. Louis region.
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Ferguson, same sex marriage stories illustrate need to vote local
Missouri voters are also asked to weigh in on four proposed changes to the state Constitution. Here are the official ballot summaries and some of our earlier coverage of those:
Amendment 2: Shall the Missouri Constitution be amended so that itpatagonia discount code zulily will be permissible to allow relevant evidence of prior criminal acts to be admissible in prosecutions for crimes of a sexual nature involving a victim under eighteen years of age?
If more resources are needed to defend increased prosecutions additional costs to governmental entities could be at least $1.4 million annually, otherwise the fiscal impact is expected to be limited.
MO Prosecutors, Defense Attorneys weigh in on Amendment 2
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Amendment 3: Shall the Missouri Constitution be amended to:
require teachers to be patagonia guide jacket logosevaluated by a standards based perfpatagonia discount code zulily3ormance evaluation system for which each local school district must receive stpatagonia guide jacket 2005ate approval to continue receiving state and local funding;
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prohibit teachers from organizing or collectively bargaining regarding the design and implementation of the teacher evaluation system?