The Missouri legislature adjourns for the year later today. No interesting election law bills will have passed this year.

The bills to eliminate the typographical error in the 1993 ballot access reform bill, SB 796 and HB 2210, failed to make any headway. As a result, Missouri petitions to recognize a new ballot-qualified party continue to require the names of presidential candidates, and presidential elector candidates, if the group intends to run anyone for President. Otherwise, the petition to create a new party does not require the names of candidates.

Restrictive bills also failed to pass, including a bill to require voters at the polls to show government photo-ID, and a bill to double the number of signatures for an initiative, and a bill to ban paying circulators on a per-signature basis, and a bill to require petitioners to live in Missouri.