Associated Press: Some voters are pushing back on lawmakers’ efforts to overturn citizen ballot initiatives

One by one, each of the more than 50 people seated on folding chairs at a public library explained why they were there.

“I’m just really upset about our voting rights being taken away from us,” one woman said.

“I’m mad, and I want to do something with my anger that protects my rights,” the next woman exclaimed.

“I want to understand how the heck they can do this,” added another.

The citizen activists, many of them heretofore strangers, had come together two days after the Missouri House passed legislation to overturn a voter-approved ballot initiative guaranteeing paid sick leave for workers and cost-of-living increases to the minimum wage.

The people weren’t focused on how to stop the Senate from taking the same action. Rather, the group had something bigger in mind: Preventing the Legislature from ever reversing the will of the voters again.

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