Elections : Constitutional Amendment – Initiative Petition – Challenge To Signatures

Where opponents of a constitutional amendment challenged the secretary of state’s certification of proponents’ signatures, the certification allowing the proposed amendment to be put before voters in an upcoming general election is affirmed because the secretary of state properly found that the proponents submitted a sufficient number of valid signatures, the amendment did not violate the state constitution’s single subject requirement and the remaining challenges were premature.

Judgment is affirmed.

Boeving v. Secretary of State (MLW No. 69730/Case No. SC95924 – 26 pages) (Supreme Court of Missouri, Wilson, J.; Breckenridge, C.J., Fischer, Draper, Teitelman and Russell, JJ., and Dowd, Sp.J., concur. Stith, J., not participating) Appealed from circuit court, Cole County, Beetem, J. (Charles W. Hatfield, Erin M. Naeger and Jeremy A. Root, Jefferson City, and Heidi Doerhoff Vollet, Dale C. Doerhoff and Shelley A. Kintzel, Jefferson City, for appellants) (James R. Layton and Jason K. Lewis, Jefferson City, and Jane E. Dueker, Arthur D. Gregg and John J. Coatar, St. Louis, and Edward D. Greim and Alan T. Simpson, Kansas City, Missouri, for respondents).

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