Voter records put under microscope in Missouri sports betting amendment trial
A Cole County Circuit Court judge must soon decide whether Missouri voters will be able to enshrine sports betting in the state’s constitution.
A lawsuit brought by two political strategists questions the validity of the signature verification process used by the Secretary of State’s Office. The proposal was certified for the November ballot after being deemed to have collected enough signatures in all but two congressional districts.
But over the course of a nearly seven-hour hearing on Thursday, both sides picked through individual voter records in Missouri’s 1st Congressional District after a petition management firm hired by the plaintiffs said it had found around 750 signatures that should have been deemed invalid — enough to drag the petition below the threshold needed to be placed on the ballot.
Attorneys representing the secretary of state and the sports betting campaign, Winning for Missouri Education, prodded at the petition management firm’s techniques.
https://missouriindependent.com/2024/09/05/voter-records-put-under-microscope-in-missouri-sports-betting-amendment-trial/