Tuesday is Election day in both Missouri and Arkansas and there are several state and local issues to be voted on and state and local offices to be decided. Missourians will decide if wide-sweeping changes are needed for the state Constitution. The Missouri Constitutional Convention question will ask voters if the governor should invite delegates to serve at a convention to revise or amend the Missouri Constitution. Missouri voters will also be asked to vote on Amendment 1 which would allow the General Assembly to override the current constitutional restrictions of state investments by the state treasurer. Voters will be asked to vote on Amendment 3 which would remove state prohibitions on purchasing, possessing, consuming, using, delivering, manufacturing, and selling marijuana for personal use for adults over the age of twenty-one; it also allows allow persons with certain marijuana-related non-violent offenses to petition for release from incarceration or parole and probation and have records expunged. Missouri Voters will be asked to vote on amendment 4 which would authorize laws, passed before December 31, 2026, that increase minimum funding for a police force established by a state board of police commissioners to ensure such police force has additional resources to serve its communities. And they will vote on amendment 5 which asks Shall the Missouri National Guard currently under the Missouri Department of Public Safety be its own department, known as the Missouri Department of the National Guard, which shall be required to protect the constitutional rights and civil liberties of Missourians?
In Arkansas, Voters will decide on 4 issues.
Issue 1 would allow the General Assembly to convene in extraordinary session upon the issuance of a jointly written proclamation of the speaker of the House of Representatives and the president pro tempore of the Senate or upon the submission of a written proclamation containing the signatures of at least 2/3 of the members of each of the House of Representatives and the Senate.
Arkansas Issue 2 would require a sixty percent supermajority vote of approval from voters to adopt constitutional amendments and citizen-initiated state statutes.
Arkansas Issue 3 would create the “Arkansas Religious Freedom Amendment.
Arkansas Issue 4 would authorize the possession, personal use, and consumption of cannabis by adults, to authorize the cultivation and sale of cannabis by licensed commercial facilities, and to provide for the regulation of those facilities.
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