The Republican Party War on Democracy continues.

Here is the story from Missouri Independent.

If the Missouri House passes the bill, it will still need a majority vote from The Show Me State’s voters in November 2024 to amend the Missouri Constitution.

The story also states that the Missouri House has passed a bill making it harder to circulate citizen initiative petitions in Missouri. Petition circulators would have to be US citizens, Missouri residents for at least 30 days prior to the start of the petitioning period, and circulator pay per signature would be banned.

On February 7, U.S. Senators Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) and Laphonza Butler (D-Cal.) introduced S.3750, which requires states to draw U.S. House districts that are not biased for or against any political party. Here is the bill’s text.

On February 22, the Kansas House passed HB 2516 by 68-52. This is the bill that raises the number of signatures for a statewide independent from 5,000 signatures to 2% of the last gubernatorial vote (almost 21,000 signatures). Now the bill goes to the Senate.

Kansas is in the Tenth Circuit. In 1984 the Tenth Circuit ruled in a Wyoming case that states cannot increase ballot access barriers in an election year and expect the new requirement to take effect immediately. The Kansas bill, if passed, will be in violation of that ruling, because it takes effect this year.