The Missouri voting reform organization Show Me the Vote! is holding an open house/reception in Kansas City today to celebrate the approval of their inititiative petition. They are attempting to put an initiative on the ballot that would require that Missouri elections return to a hand-marked, hand-counted ballot.
From a release by Show Me the Vote!:
Show Me The Vote! has been working furiously this year to write and file a Missouri Constitutional Initiative Petition which would mandate that Missouri elections return to using hand marked, hand counted paper ballots instead of the… ummm… problematic machines that we must use now.
This is to announce a successful conclusion to that effort which culminated with a notice late Monday afternoon that our Initiative Petition had been approved.
To celebrate, and to get a jump on the October 1 start of our six month campaign, we are holding a reception/open house at:
Holiday Inn
Salon A
45th & Main (by the Plaza)
Kansas City, Missouri.
Friday, 8/31 1:00pm to 9:00pmIf you would like to participate in this effort to take back our democracy, please join us! You will be able to:
1) Be among the first 1000 to sign the Initiative Petition.
and/or
2) Sign up as a Petition Circulator (need not live in Missouri)
3) Ask any questions pertaining to the effort, and
4) Find ways to help out with this “revolutionary” movement
Please circulate widely.
The notice of the Petition’s approval, and the ballot language (take the auditor’s report with a grain of salt and consider her source) may be found at the website of the Secretary of State.
The full text of the proposed revision of the Missouri Constitution may be found here.