Plaintiff appealed from the adverse judgment in her petition for relief to challenge the official ballot title for a proposed constitutional amendment by initiative petition. Plaintiff challenged the language of the Secretary of State’s summary statements for the initiative petitions ...

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Fake news has evolved beyond the playbook used by Russian trolls in the U.S. election. As the European Union gears up for a crucial election, it is mostly homegrown groups rather than foreign powers that are taking to social media ...

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Fake news has evolved beyond the playbook used by Russian trolls in the U.S. election. As the European Union gears up for a crucial election, it is mostly homegrown groups rather than foreign powers that are taking to social media ...

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Where appellants sued the state challenging the enforcement of the personal-identification requirements of a voter-identification law, judgment as a matter of law for the state is reversed and remanded because the appellants’ petition sufficiently pleaded the insufficiency of the state’s ...

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With the midterm elections less than a month away, a strong majority of Americans are concerned the nation’s voting systems might be vulnerable to hackers, according to a poll released Wednesday. That is roughly unchanged from concerns about election security ...

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The parties cross-appealed from the circuit court’s judgment, which accepted two challenges plaintiffs levied against the validity of an initiative petition to amend Article III of the Missouri Constitution and rejected the other challenges. Plaintiffs successfully argued that the petition ...

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Plaintiff appealed the dismissal of his petition to compel the Missouri Secretary of State to decertify a medical marijuana-initiative petition, arguing that signatures in support were not properly collected, alleging “thousands of individuals…signed [the petition] while not in the presence ...

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The North Dakota Secretary of State moved for a stay of an injunction issued by the district court enjoining enforcement of North Dakota’s voter ID law, requiring the secretary deem voters qualified if the voter presents a current mailing address ...

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Where appellant, who was appointed as a presidential elector by the State of Minnesota was deemed to have vacated his position when he tried to vote for candidates other than those to whom he was pledged, challenged the appointment of ...

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Where the secretary of state was not permitted to look behind a circulator’s affidavit to determine veracity, plaintiff failed to state a claim to decertify medical marijuana initiative petition based on secretary of state’s improper certification of signatures in support. ...

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Calzone v. Ashcroft (MLW No. 72074/Case No. WD82026 – 9 pages) (Missouri Court of Appeals, Western District, Howard, J.)

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