Missouri ballot measure survives legal challenge
by Harry Roth
A Missouri ballot measure banning ranked-choice voting and non-citizen voting will appear on the November ballot after a state judge dismissed a lawsuit against it.
The lawsuit brought by RCV supporters appeared meritless from the start, a last-ditch attempt to keep the number of states that have banned their complicated system from increasing even more. They claimed the state’s descriptive text was too vague and would mislead voters. Fortunately, Judge Cotton Walker disagreed, writing that the explanation “is not untrue or partial, and it does not use language that is intentionally argumentative or likely to create prejudice for the measure, nor does it incorrectly describe SJR78.”
The battle to ban ranked-choice voting has been years in the making. And thanks to the work of state legislators like Sen. Ben Brown and Rep. Ben Baker, Missourians will have a chance to save their state from ranked-choice voting and non-citizen voting.