On May 3, the Missouri Senate unanimously passed HB 1236. The bill is now through the legislature. It removes the typographical error in the law that required petitions to create a new ballot-qualified party to include the presidential candidate and the presidential elector candidates (if the group intended to run for those offices). This was an odd requirement, because the group didn’t need to list any of its nominees for other office on that same petition. No one ever intended the law to require the names of the presidential electors on the petition; that only existed because of a drafting error in 1993. It has taken almost 20 years to fix this irritating problem. Thanks to Ken Bush for the news, and also for persistently lobbying the legislature to achieve this result.