Attorney General's Opinion Letter 107-2005
Topics:
Initiative petition.
Initiatives.
Summary conclusion
Review and approval of the legal content and form of a summary statement prepared pursuant to Section 116.334, RSMo, concerning the initiative petition proposal for a constitutional amendment allowing candidates to file with multiple political parties and changing the nominating process.
Contents of letter
Nov. 10, 2005
Honorable Robin Carnahan
Missouri Secretary of State
James C. Kirkpatrick State Information Center
600 West Main Street
Jefferson City, MO 65101
Dear Secretary Carnahan:
This office is in receipt of your letter of November 3, 2005, submitting to us a summary statement prepared under Section 116.334, RSMo, for a constitutional amendment allowing candidates to file with multiple political parties and changing the nominating process. The proposed summary statement is as follows:
Shall the Missouri Constitution be amended to allow a candidate for elective office to receive the nomination of multiple political parties, provided that:
1) a candidate may receive no more than one vote per ballot for each office sought;
2) for the purpose of determining a party's eligibility to be automatically listed on future ballots, each vote for a party's candidates shall be tallied separately; and
3) candidates of a political party other than the two major parties shall be nominated by that party's nominating committee?
Pursuant to Section 116.334, we approve the legal content and form of the proposed statement. Because our review of the statement is mandated by statute, no action that we take with respect to such review should be construed as an endorsement of the resolution, nor as the expression of any view regarding the objectives of its proponents.
Very truly yours,
JEREMIAH W. (JAY) NIXON
Attorney General