STL NPR: Missouri will join Trump-pressured redistricting push to save House GOP majority

Efforts to restrict the initiative petition process in other states have floundered badly. And if lawmakers place the measure on the ballot, it would likely have to go before voters at the same time as another initiative repealing a 2024 abortion rights measure.

Lawmakers failed to place major changes to the initiative petition process on the 2024 ballot. Denise Lieberman, director and general counsel of the Missouri Voter Protection Coalition, hopes this 2025 effort also fails.

“Missouri lawmakers should also reject efforts yet again to eliminate majority rule from our ballot initiative process,” Lieberman said. “For more than a century, Missourians across the political spectrum have used the ballot initiative process to make their voices heard. Missouri is the Show-Me State; Missourians believe in fairness. Lawmakers should reject efforts to rig our elections and silence the will of the people.”

Benjamin Singer, of Respect MO Voters, called the effort on the ballot initiative process a “shameful attack on majority rule.” Singer’s initiative would make it more difficult for legislators to overturn voter approved initiatives.

“We will defeat this disgusting proposal, and pass our own amendment to ban politicians from attacking the will of the people, ever again,” Singer said.

You can read the full article on NPR here.