Sig­na­tures sub­mit­ted to put legal­iz­ing abor­tion, sports wager­ing on Mis­souri bal­lot

(The Cen­ter Square) – The orches­trat­ed parade of rental trucks deliv­er­ing bank box­es of signed peti­tions to the Mis­souri sec­re­tary of state’s office end­ed on Fri­day, the final busi­ness day before a May 5 con­sti­tu­tion­al dead­line.
Orga­ni­za­tions desir­ing to get a mea­sure on the Novem­ber bal­lot gath­ered sig­na­tures for the last few months. Sig­na­tures of 8% of legal vot­ers in any six of Missouri’s eight con­gres­sion­al dis­tricts, or approx­i­mate­ly 171,000 vot­ers, must be gath­ered and cer­ti­fied by Repub­li …