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MO Rev Stat § 116.330 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title IX - Suffrage and Elections|Chapter 116 - Initiative and Referendum|Section 116.330 - Board of canvassers or governor to issue statement.

Effective - 01 Jan 1981   116.330. Board of canvassers or governor to issue statement. — 1. After an election at which any statewide ballot measure, other than a proposed constitution or constitutional amendment submitted by a constitutional convention, is voted upon, the secretary of state shall convene the board of state canvassers to total the abstracts. Not later than two weeks after receiving all required abstracts, the board shall issue a statement giving the number of votes cast "YES" and "NO" on each question. If voters approve two or more measures at one election which are known to conflict with one another, or to contain conflicting provisions, the board shall also state which received the largest affirmative vote.  2. After an election at which a proposed constitution or constitutional amendment adopted by a constitutional convention is submitted, the governor shall proclaim the results in accordance with Section 3(c), Article XII of the Constitution. ­­-------- (L. 1980 S.B. 658)  Effective 1-01-81
MO Rev Stat § 116.334 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title IX - Suffrage and Elections|Chapter 116 - Initiative and Referendum|Section 116.334 - Petition approval required, procedure to obtain petition title or summary statement — rejection or approval of petition, procedure — circulation of petition prior to approval, effect — signatures, deadline for filing.

Effective - 04 Nov 2014, 2 histories   116.334. Petition approval required, procedure to obtain petition title or summary statement — rejection or approval of petition, procedure — circulation of petition prior to approval, effect — signatures, deadline for filing. — 1. If the petition form is approved, the secretary of state shall make a copy of the sample petition available on the secretary of state's website. For a period of fifteen days after the petition is approved as to form, the secretary of state shall accept public comments regarding the proposed measure and provide copies of such comments upon request. Within twenty-three days of receipt of such approval, the secretary of state shall prepare and transmit to the attorney general a summary statement of the measure which shall be a concise statement not exceeding one hundred words. This statement shall be in the form of a question using language neither intentionally argumentative nor likely to create prejudice either for or against the proposed measure. The attorney general shall within ten days approve the legal content and form of the proposed statement.  2. Signatures obtained prior to the date the official ballot title is certified by the secretary of state shall not be counted.  3. Signatures for statutory initiative petitions shall be filed not later than six months prior to the general election during which the petition's ballot measure is submitted for a vote, and shall also be collected not earlier than the day after the day upon which the previous general election was held. ­­-------- (L. 1985 H.B. 543 § 2, A.L. 1997 S.B. 132, A.L. 2013 H.B. 117)  Effective 11-04-14
MO Rev Stat § 116.340 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title IX - Suffrage and Elections|Chapter 116 - Initiative and Referendum|Section 116.340 - Publication of approved measures.

Effective - 01 Jan 1981   116.340. Publication of approved measures. — When a statewide ballot measure is approved by the voters, the secretary of state shall publish it with the laws enacted by the following session of the general assembly, and the revisor of statutes shall include it in the next edition or supplement of the revised statutes of Missouri. Each of the measures printed above shall include the date of the proclamation or statement of approval under section 116.330. ­­-------- (L. 1980 S.B. 658)  Effective 1-01-81
MO Rev Stat § 122.650 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title IX - Suffrage and Elections|Chapter 122 - Municipal Elections|Section 122.650 - Power and authority to regulate municipal elections.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   122.650. Power and authority to regulate municipal elections. — Full power and authority are hereby conferred on every city in this state which now has, or may hereafter have, more than four hundred thousand inhabitants, to provide for and regulate all elections for offices of and under such city and for the nomination of candidates for such offices; and such provision for and regulation of such elections may be effected either by charter provisions therefor adopted by the people of such city according to law, or ordinances therefor duly enacted, or by the people thereof under the power of initiative, if any, reserved in the charter of such city. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 11775)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 10468; 1919 § 5020
MO Rev Stat § 127.010 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title IX - Suffrage and Elections|Chapter 127 - State Demographer|Section 127.010 - Definitions.

Effective - 28 Aug 2019   127.010. Definitions. — For purposes of this chapter, the following terms and phrases shall mean:  (1) "Demographer" or "nonpartisan state demographer", the nonpartisan state demographer appointed pursuant to Article III, Section 3 of the Missouri Constitution;  (2) "Interested party", any lobbyist, lobbyist principal, paid political consultant, state representative, state senator, or a spouse, dependent child, employee, or staff member of any such person or any organization having the primary or incidental purpose of influencing the redistricting process;  (3) "Lobbyist", shall have the same meaning as in section 105.470;  (4) "Lobbyist principal", shall have the same meaning as in section 105.470;  (5) "Redistricting process", the process of preparing and drawing state legislative districts pursuant to Article III of the Missouri Constitution;  (6) "Redistricting public comment portal", the website established pursuant to section 127.030 for the purpose of allowing the nonpartisan state demographer to publicly receive comments, records, documents, maps, data files, communication, or information of any kind relating to the redistricting process;  (7) "Redistricting records", any comments, records, documents, maps, or information of any kind received by the demographer from a person or entity that is not the demographer and any comments, records, documents, maps, data files, communication, or information created by the demographer during the term of the demographer as part of the redistricting process. ­­-------- (L. 2019 S.B. 213)
MO Rev Stat § 127.030 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title IX - Suffrage and Elections|Chapter 127 - State Demographer|Section 127.030 - Redistricting public comment portal established, purpose — receipt of information through portal — disclosure form — recordkeeping.

Effective - 28 Aug 2019   127.030. Redistricting public comment portal established, purpose — receipt of information through portal — disclosure form — recordkeeping. — 1. The nonpartisan state demographer shall establish a website, to be known as the "Redistricting Public Comment Portal", for the purpose of allowing the public acceptance of comments, records, documents, maps, data files, communication, or information of any kind relating to the redistricting process.  2. The nonpartisan state demographer shall accept comments, records, documents, maps, data files, communication, and information of any kind relating to the redistricting process solely through the redistricting public comment portal.  3. Any comments, records, documents, maps, data files, communication, or information of any kind submitted through the redistricting public comment portal by any person or entity shall be accompanied by a disclosure form that indicates whether:  (1) The person or entity making the submission was responsible in whole or in part for such submission; or  (2) A person or entity other than the person or entity making the submission contributed money that was intended to fund the preparation of the submission and, if so, the disclosure form shall additionally identify each such person or entity.  4. (1) All redistricting records shall be considered the property of the state and shall not be mutilated, destroyed, transferred, removed, or otherwise damaged or disposed of, in whole or in part, except as provided in sections 109.200 to 109.310.  (2) Any redistricting record shall be considered a "public record" as that term is defined in section 610.010.  (3) Upon the expiration of the term to which the demographer was selected, all redistricting records shall be deposited in the state records center and archives and shall be managed pursuant to sections 109.200 to 109.310. ­­-------- (L. 2019 S.B. 213)
MO Rev Stat § 128.010 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title IX - Suffrage and Elections|Chapter 128 - Election of Electors and Electoral Districts — Congressional Districts|Section 128.010 - Electoral districts — number of electors to be chosen.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   128.010. Electoral districts — number of electors to be chosen. — Hereafter, at all elections held in this state for the offices of president and vice president of the United States, the electoral district shall be the same as the congressional districts into which the state shall be divided, and the same number of electors as there may be districts shall be chosen by the qualified voters, one of whom shall be a resident of each district; and in addition thereto, two electors shall be chosen by the state at large. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 12311)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 10730; 1919 § 5285; 1909 § 2744  CROSS REFERENCE:  Number of electors to be chosen, U.S. Const. Art. II § 1  (1969) Congressional districts established by 74th General Assembly and having an average deviation from ideal of 1.6% held to violate Art. I § 2 of U.S. Constitution. Kirkpatrick v. Preisler, 89 S.Ct. 1225. Petition for rehearing denied 89 S.Ct. 1737.
MO Rev Stat § 128.020 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title IX - Suffrage and Elections|Chapter 128 - Election of Electors and Electoral Districts — Congressional Districts|Section 128.020 - New congressional apportionment — duty of governor.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   128.020. New congressional apportionment — duty of governor. — When any new apportionment shall be made of the members to be elected to the house of representatives of the United States, whereby the number of electors to which this state may be entitled shall be increased or diminished, it shall be the duty of the governor to lay off the state into as many districts as shall be equal to the number of electors to which this state shall then be entitled, so that the said districts contain, as near as may be, an equal number of inhabitants. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 12312)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 10731; 1919 § 5286; 1909 § 2745
MO Rev Stat § 128.030 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title IX - Suffrage and Elections|Chapter 128 - Election of Electors and Electoral Districts — Congressional Districts|Section 128.030 - Notice to be given.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   128.030. Notice to be given. — It shall be the duty of the governor, whenever he shall exercise the power hereby vested in him, to give notice of the division made by him, by proclamation, to be published in not to exceed two newspapers in each of said districts in this state, sixty days at least before the first election under such arrangement. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 12313)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 10732; 1919 § 5287; 1909 § 2746
MO Rev Stat § 128.040 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title IX - Suffrage and Elections|Chapter 128 - Election of Electors and Electoral Districts — Congressional Districts|Section 128.040 - Election of electors.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   128.040. Election of electors. — The qualified voters in each of said districts shall meet at their respective places of holding elections on the first Tuesday after the first Monday of November, in the year one thousand eight hundred and eighty, and on the first Tuesday after the first Monday of November every four years thereafter, unless the Congress of the United States shall appoint a different day, and in that case, on such day as the said congress shall appoint, and shall proceed to elect as many fit persons as the state shall then be entitled to elect, as electors of president and vice president, one of whom shall be a resident of each district. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 12314)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 10733; 1919 § 5288; 1909 § 2747
MO Rev Stat § 128.050 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title IX - Suffrage and Elections|Chapter 128 - Election of Electors and Electoral Districts — Congressional Districts|Section 128.050 - Conduct of election of electors.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   128.050. Conduct of election of electors. — The election shall be conducted by the judges who may have been appointed to hold the general election for the same year, and under the same regulations, and have the public notice thereof given by the sheriff in each county as is or may be required by law regulating such general elections. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 12315)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 10734; 1919 § 5289; 1909 § 2748
MO Rev Stat § 128.060 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title IX - Suffrage and Elections|Chapter 128 - Election of Electors and Electoral Districts — Congressional Districts|Section 128.060 - Returns, how certified.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   128.060. Returns, how certified. — It shall be the duty of the judges of such elections in the different townships to make returns thereof to the clerks of the county commissions of their respective counties, within two days after such election, which clerks shall, within eight days after they receive such returns, certify and transmit the same to the governor, by delivering them into the nearest post office on the most direct route to the seat of government. If there shall be a failure to receive any of the returns at the seat of government for one mail after the same is due, the secretary of state may dispatch a messenger to the county not returned, with directions to bring up said returns to the governor. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 12316)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 10735; 1919 § 5290; 1909 § 2749
MO Rev Stat § 128.070 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title IX - Suffrage and Elections|Chapter 128 - Election of Electors and Electoral Districts — Congressional Districts|Section 128.070 - Governor to cast up votes.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   128.070. Governor to cast up votes. — The governor, on receipt of the certificates from the several counties in each district which he may have received within fifteen days after the day of election, shall immediately add up the vote from the several counties, and the person residing in any one district having the highest number of votes given in the state for any one person residing in the same district shall by him be declared duly elected elector for said district. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 12317)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 10736; 1919 § 5291; 1909 § 2750
MO Rev Stat § 128.080 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title IX - Suffrage and Elections|Chapter 128 - Election of Electors and Electoral Districts — Congressional Districts|Section 128.080 - Tie vote, how determined.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   128.080. Tie vote, how determined. — If two or more persons residing in one district shall have an equal number of votes given in the state, as aforesaid, and more than any other person residing in the same district, the governor shall immediately notify the general assembly thereof, and such election shall be determined by joint vote of both houses of the general assembly, by choosing one of the persons so having an equal number of votes. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 12318)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 10737; 1919 § 5292; 1909 § 2751
MO Rev Stat § 128.090 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title IX - Suffrage and Elections|Chapter 128 - Election of Electors and Electoral Districts — Congressional Districts|Section 128.090 - Governor to notify electors.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   128.090. Governor to notify electors. — It shall be the duty of the governor, at the expense of the state, in all cases to immediately notify the persons chosen of their election, as soon as the same shall have been ascertained, agreeably to the provisions aforesaid. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 12319)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 10738; 1919 § 5293; 1909 § 2752
MO Rev Stat § 128.100 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title IX - Suffrage and Elections|Chapter 128 - Election of Electors and Electoral Districts — Congressional Districts|Section 128.100 - Contested elections.

Effective - 28 Aug 1949   128.100. Contested elections. — All contested elections for electors shall be determined by a joint vote of both houses of the general assembly. The joint meeting of the two houses deciding on such elections shall be held in the hall of the house of representatives, and the president of the senate shall preside. If any person contests the election of an elector, he shall present a petition to the general assembly, setting forth the points on which he will contest the same and the facts which he will prove in support of these points, and shall pray for leave to produce his proof; and a vote shall be taken in the house, by yeas and nays, whether the prayer shall be granted. If the majority of the whole number of votes of both houses shall be in the affirmative, they shall appoint a joint committee to take the testimony on the part of the petitioner, and also on the part of the person whose place is contested, with the power to send for witnesses, issue warrants, under the hand of the chairman, to any judge or associate circuit judge, and to take the depositions of witnesses at such time and place as the warrant shall direct, which warrant shall mention the points to which the testimony is to be taken. Reasonable notice shall be given by the party in whose favor the deposition shall be allowed, to the opposite party, of the time and place of taking same; and the judge or associate circuit judge shall proceed in all things, in procuring the attendance of witnesses, and in taking and certifying the testimony, as is directed herein. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 12320, A. 1949 H.B. 2061)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 10739; 1919 § 5294; 1909 § 2753
MO Rev Stat § 128.110 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title IX - Suffrage and Elections|Chapter 128 - Election of Electors and Electoral Districts — Congressional Districts|Section 128.110 - List of names of electors to be delivered to each elector.

Effective - 28 Aug 1949   128.110. List of names of electors to be delivered to each elector. — The governor shall, on or before the date of the meeting of such electors, cause lists of the names of such electors to be made and delivered to them as required by act of Congress. The persons employed in giving the notices, or conveying the returns aforesaid, shall be allowed five cents for every mile such persons may travel in going and returning in the performance of any of the services aforesaid, to be audited and paid as other claims. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 12321, A. 1949 H.B. 2061)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 10740; 1919 § 5295; 1909 § 2754
MO Rev Stat § 128.120 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title IX - Suffrage and Elections|Chapter 128 - Election of Electors and Electoral Districts — Congressional Districts|Section 128.120 - Compensation of elector.

Effective - 28 Aug 1949   128.120. Compensation of elector. — The electors shall each receive for their services the sum of five dollars per day and mileage as allowed to the members of the general assembly. The governor shall approve their accounts and certify them to the commissioner of administration for payment. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 12322, A. 1949 H.B. 2061)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 10741; 1919 § 5296; 1909 § 2755
MO Rev Stat § 128.130 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title IX - Suffrage and Elections|Chapter 128 - Election of Electors and Electoral Districts — Congressional Districts|Section 128.130 - Vacancies at meeting of electors, how filled.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   128.130. Vacancies at meeting of electors, how filled. — If any of the electors appointed under this chapter shall fail to attend at the seat of government by the hour of two o'clock in the afternoon of the day appointed by act of congress for their meeting, then the electors present may appoint other persons to act as electors in the place of those absent; and if there be a failure to elect, the electors attending at such time and place shall appoint some suitable person or persons, as the case may be, to fill the vacancy or vacancies existing by reason thereof. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 12323)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 10742; 1919 § 5297; 1909 § 2756
MO Rev Stat § 128.340 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title IX - Suffrage and Elections|Chapter 128 - Election of Electors and Electoral Districts — Congressional Districts|Section 128.340 - New counties — assignment to congressional districts.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   128.340. New counties — assignment to congressional districts. — When any new county shall be organized, such county shall constitute and form a portion of the same congressional district embracing at the time the county or counties from which such new county shall be organized; and if any such county shall be organized from two or more counties lying in different congressional districts, then such county shall form and constitute a part of the congressional district embracing, at the time, the greater portion of the territory constituting such county thus organized. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 12310)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 10729; 1919 § 5284; 1909 § 2743
MO Rev Stat § 128.345 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title IX - Suffrage and Elections|Chapter 128 - Election of Electors and Electoral Districts — Congressional Districts|Section 128.345 - Definitions.

Effective - 03 Jun 2011   *128.345. Definitions. — All references in sections 128.451 to 128.458 to counties, voting districts (VTD), and tract-blocks (Block) mean those counties, voting districts (VTD), and tract-blocks (Block) as reported to the state by the United States Bureau of the Census for the 2010 census. ­­-------- (L. 1991 S.B. 369 § 12, A.L. 2001 H.B. 1000, A.L. 2007 S.B. 613 Revision, A.L. 2011 H.B. 193)  *Effective 6-03-11, see § 21.250. H.B. 193 was vetoed on April 30, 2011. The veto was overridden on May 4, 2011.
MO Rev Stat § 128.346 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title IX - Suffrage and Elections|Chapter 128 - Election of Electors and Electoral Districts — Congressional Districts|Section 128.346 - Congressional districts for election of representatives to the U.S. Congress.

Effective - 03 Jun 2011   *128.346. Congressional districts for election of representatives to the U.S. Congress. — The districts established by the provisions of sections 128.400 to 128.440 for the election of representatives to the Congress of the United States shall be effective beginning with election to the 108th Congress and through the election of the 112th Congress. The districts established by sections 128.451 to 128.458 for the election of representatives to the Congress of the United States shall be effective beginning with the election to the 113th Congress. ­­-------- (L. 1991 S.B. 369 § 1, A.L. 2001 H.B. 1000, A.L. 2007 S.B. 613 Revision, A.L. 2011 H.B. 193)  *Effective 6-03-11, see § 21.250. H.B. 193 was vetoed on April 30, 2011. The veto was overridden on May 4, 2011.