Current Missouri League Priorities
Each year after careful study, the League of Women Voters of Missouri sets policy and legislative priorities. These are the foundation for much of the work local Leagues throughout the state do.
The state priorities for 2020 are listed below.
1. Election Reform to Make Democracy Work (Protect Amendment 1, Fight Voter Suppression and Make Voting Easier).
Click here for information on resolutions introduced in the 2020 General Assembly to replace the redistricting reforms that 62 percent of voters approved in 2018 with a process that would allow unprecedented racial and political gerrymandering. The issue will be on the 2020 ballot.
2. Complete Census Count (click
here for a fact sheet)
3. Medicaid Expansion
4. Climate Change
5. Environmental Protection
6. Education (Pre-K through college)
7. Equal Rights Amendment
8. National Popular Vote