St. Louis, what's on the ballot?
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What’s on the Ballot: St. Louis November 3rd Election
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT NO. 3
Repeal the 2024 voter-approved:
1. Providing: Reproductive healthcare rights; including abortion through fetal
viability
2. Allowing abortions for
a. rape victims and incest (under 12 weeks gestation)
b. Emergencies
c. fetal anomalies
3. Allowing legislation regulating abortion
4. Ensure parental consent for minors’ abortions
5. Prohibit gender transition procedures for minors
Vote NO if:
1. You voted ‘yes’ last year
2. You want to keep your constitutional right to reproductive healthcare
(voter-approved in 2024 / this includes safe abortions)
3. You want to keep current constitutional protections as they are
4. You want to prevent future laws and legislation restricting reproductive
healthcare and abortions
5. Minor’s access to transition procedures:
a. Disclaimer: These procedures were outlawed in August of 2023 by the SAFE act. There is no expiration on
the procedure ban for minors. This would be like your car insurance company prohibiting you from texting and
driving. It’s already prohibited by law, but they like to reiterate it. The minors receiving transition procedures is
irrelevant on the ballot.
Vote YES if:
1. You want to ban abortions
2. You want to appeal the voter-approved Missouri Constitutional amendment
that took place in 2024
3. Allow more governmental legislature and law-making to regulate personal
medical decision
4. Prohibit gender transition procedures for minors
a. Disclaimer: These procedures were already outlawed in August of 2023 by the SAFE act. There is no
expiration on the procedure ban for minors. This would be like your car insurance company prohibiting you
from texting and driving. It’s already prohibited by law, but they like to reiterate it.
i. So if you would rather vote ‘no’, but are voting ‘yes’ to protect kids from transition surgeries, you can
safely vote ‘no’ with the knowledge that the SAFE act was already passed, making it illegal to
perform the procedures.
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT NO. 6
Amend constitution to:
1. Make the initiative and referendum petition process a fundamental right
2. Allow courts to revise ballot summaries through lawsuits
3. Prohibit the legislature from weakening initiative and referendum powers
4. Prohibit the legislature from changing or repealing laws enacted through the
initiative process
a. prohibit passing laws similar to those rejected by referendum without greater than or equal to
80% of both chambers
5. Preserve existing majority vote and signature requirements for initiative and
referendum petitions
-state and local govt estimate no cost or savings
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT NO. 7
Amend constitution to:
1. Establish permanent public endowment fund to support state government
instead of MO residents
2. Prohibit the general assembly from appropriating or diverting the fund
3. Eliminate state-imposed taxes once the fund generates sufficient revenue to
replace them
4. Missouri Budget Project says it risks taking money from state services
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT NO. 8
Amend to:
1. Support law enforcement by preserving the right of citizens to elect a county
sheriff
2. Prohibiting the removal of a county sheriff except by writ of quo warranto
3. Recognizing the office of sheriff as part of the administration of justice
The argument: A sheriff could possibly stay in office years after committing a felony. This amendment
would make it law for a 4 year sheriff seat, and make the cause for removal extremely difficult and only for the
Attorney General to decide by writ of quo warranto.
Proposition A
*Do the people approve the act of the general assembly HB 1 (House Bill No. 1
2025 Second Extraordinary Session), which repeals existing congressional plan,
replacing it with new congressional boundaries that keep more counties intact?*
What is Prop A?
1. This is a veto referendum
2. Voting ‘YES’ upholds the HB 1
a. 2025 congressional map redraw
3. Voting ‘NO’ vetoes the 2025 redraw and upholds the 2022 map
a. The upcoming election will use the 2022 map regardless
4. The redrawing is an attempt by republican leaders to steer a congress seat back
their direction as POTUS stated HB 1, ‘will, hopefully, give us an additional Seat in
Congress’
City Proposition 1
Should STL use the same non-partisan, top-two runoff system in special elections
that is used in regular city elections by repealing section 5 of article IV of the
Charter?
1. A vote ‘YES’ means adopting the top-two runoff like a regular election
a. Aldermanic elections would have initial run and then the top-two chosen for the election
2. A vote ‘NO’ keeps rules: As is
City Proposition B
❖ Should STL by Charter amendment impose a citywide sales tax of 0.5% to
1% on all retail sales for purpose of establishing an Early Childhood
Education Fund to support programs and services relating to the quality,
affordability, and access to early childhood education for children aged 5
years & younger
➢ Revenues administered by a newly-established STL Early Childhood Education Board of
Trustees
➢ Early Education seats are a 4 year seat – electing 2 per vote
Member of the Board of Education
❖ Donna R. Jones
➢ Not much info on candidate / attended SLPS and is a community member
❖ Wendy Goss
➢ Experienced teacher, worked in SLPS, wants educators to feel included and respected
❖ Emily Hubbard
➢ Supports ‘democratically elected school boards over state control’
➢ Endorsed by the St. Louis Young Democrats
❖ Aneetra Williams Jones
➢ Not much info on candidate
❖ Zach Davis
➢ Ran for the board in 2025 and wants teacher salaries of at least $60,000
STATE AUDITOR:
❖ Scott Fitzpatrick
➢ REP
➢ State Auditor since 2023; state treasurer 2019 to 2023; state representative 2013 to 2019
➢ This year his office reported an employee's city card charges at adult entertainment venues
and $178,000 the Bates County sheriff spent on a rodeo
➢ Endorsed by Missouri Right to Life for second term
❖ Quentin Wilson
➢ DEM
➢ Former director of the Missouri Department of Revenue and state commissioner of higher education
➢ Endorsed by Missouri AFL-CIO, UAW, Teamsters Local 688 and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch
❖ Duston Coffell
➢ LIB
US REP. DISTRICT 1
❖ Paul Berry III
➢ REP
➢ Runs on anti-abortion policy
➢ Endorsed by Missouri Right to Life’s federal PAC
❖ Wesley Bell
➢ DEM
➢ Voted for a House resolution on antisemitism that expressed 'gratitude' to ICE in 2025
➢ Defeated Cori Bush in last two primaries using money donated by AIPAC (allied PACs)
➢ DecentBallot.com states, 'more than $$8 million in 2024, $$3.1 million this year'
❖ Tom Schmitz
➢ LIB
STATE REP. DISTRICT 80
❖ Jennie Drag
➢ DEM
➢ Previous Lobbyist for LGBT for PROMO; LGBT advocacy group
➢ Backed a bill cracking down on date-rape drugs
❖ Elizabeth (Lily) Fuchs
➢ REP
➢ No campaign site or heavy digital footprint
RECORDER OF DEEDS
❖ Shane Cohn
➢ DEM
➢ Pushing for community to be automatically alerted any time a document is filed in their name
➢ Endorsed by PROMO PAC
❖ Jerome H. Bauer
➢ GRN
UNCONTESTED RACES:
❖ License Collector
➢ Mavis “Tessa” Thompson
❖ State Senator District 4
➢ Gina Mitten
❖ Collector of Revenue
➢ Gregory F.X. Daly
RETAIN: 'YES' or 'NO'
❏ MO Supreme Court
❏ Judge Paul C. Wilson
❏ MO Court of Appeals: all are ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ singular votes
❏ Judge Virginia W. Lay of the Eastern District Court of Appeals
❏ Judge Rebeca Navarro-McKelvey of the Eastern District Court of Appeals
❏ Judge Angela Turner Quigless of the Eastern District Court of Appeals
❏ Circuit Court: all are ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ singular votes
❏ Judge Clinton Robert Wright of Judicial Circuit No. 22
❏ Judge Elizabeth Byrne Hogan
❏ Judge Katherine M. Fowler
❏ Annette Llewellyn
❏ Joseph P. Whyte
❏ Timothy J. Boyer
❏ Scott A. Millikan
❏ Calea Stovall-Reid
❏ Madeline Orling Connolly
❏ Heather J. Hays
❏ David A. Roither
❏ Michael F. Stelzer
❏ Associate Circuit Court
❏ Judge Michael R. Dauphin
Documents
St. Louis, MO What’s on the Ballot?.pdf
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Sources & Notes
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Corrections
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