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Significance of this age: 17 1/2

What is the minimum age for voter registration in Missouri?

To vote you will need one of these if you expect to be out of town on Election Day.

What is an Absentee Ballot?

Not only is this day of the week a Ruby, it also has a lock on elections in Missouri.

What is Tuesday ?

To vote in this election you may have to answer One Question: Democrat or Republican?

What are Primary Elections?

Number of hours Missouri’s polls are open on Election Day.

What is 13?

Number of members of the Missouri Senate.

What is 34?

Percentage of the Missouri Senate elected every two years

What is 50%?

This powerful Senate official assigns bills to committees, appoints senators to committees and usually presides over the Senate.

Who is the President Pro Tempore?

This official is the President ex officio of the Missouri Senate, first in line of succession.

Who is the Lieutenant Governor?

This Senator becomes Governor if the Governor and Lt. Governor cannot serve.

Who is the President Pro Tempore?

This is the term for a crime which may be punished by a sentence of more than 365 days in jail.

What is a felony?

This type of crime is punishable by less than a year in jail

What is a misdemeanor?

Name for the formal charge issued by a grand jury

What is an indictment?

Unconstitutional use of a state office to obtain employment for a close relative.

What is Nepotism?

This provision of Missouri’s Bill of Rights guards against being tried twice for the same crime.

What is Double Jeopardy?

Besides St. Louis, Missouri’s Courts of Appeal sit in these two cities.

What are Kansas City & Springfield?

All of these cases begin in Missouri’s Circuit courts

What are civil and criminal?

Missouri official who selects Judges of the Missouri Supreme Court.

Who is the Governor?

These appeals bypass the Missouri Courts of Appeal and head directly to the Missouri Supreme Court

What are death penalty appeals?

Generally speaking, Missouri’s Plan for Nonpartisan Judicial Selection does not apply to which areas of Missouri

What are rural areas?

Official name of the Missouri Legislature

What is the General Assembly?

Portion of each chamber of the state legislature needed to propose an Amendment to the State’s Constitution.

What is a majority?

The month during which every legislative year begins in Missouri

What is January?

For Missouri’s state legislature this is Veto Month.

What is September?

Number of years which pass between redrawing legislative districts

What is 10?

Robin Carnahan

Who is the Secretary of State?

Peter Kinder

Who is the Lt. Governor?

Clint Zweifel

Who is the State Treasurer?

Chris Koster

Who is the State Attorney General

Susan Montee

Who is the State Auditor?

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1st Tuesday following the 1st Monday in November.

What is General Election Day?

Number of days you must wait to register to vote after becoming a resident of Missouri.

What is 0?

Of the following, the one place where you May NOT register to vote: City Hall, County Library, County Clerk’s Office, DMV, Post Office

What is the Post Office?

7 days.

What is the number of days before an election in which an individual must request an absentee ballot?

Three months during which Missouri conducts regular elections

What are April, August, and November?

Two Executive Branch officials who must meet these requirements: 30 years old, 10 years resident of Missouri, and US citizen for 15 years.

Who are the Governor and Lt. Governor?

This Executive Branch official is the State’s Chief Legal Officer.

Who is the Attorney General?

Among this Executive Branch official’s many duties are acting as custodian of the Great Seal of the State of Missouri

Who is the Secretary of State?

Missouri official responsible for making sure that government offices keep their account books in proper form

Who is the State Auditor?

This official is the custodian of all the state’s funds

Who is the State Treasurer?

Procedure through which Missouri’s voters can repeal existing laws

What is the Referendum?

Procedure through which Missouri voters can propose a new law by gathering voters signatures on petitions

What is the Initiative?

Percentage of voters in 2/3 of the state’s congressional districts who must sign a petition to get a proposed law on the ballot

What is 5%

These keep Missouri’s Senators and Representatives from serving longer than 8 years in the same job.

What are Term Limits?

It doesn’t take a scholar or social worker to recognize that these activities receive more of Missourians’ tax money than any other

What are education and welfare?

Number of Judges on the Missouri Supreme Court.

What is 7?

Number of years a Missouri Supreme Court Judge Serves during a full term of office.

What is 12 years?

Following selection by the Governor, this is the length of time a Missouri judge serves before facing his or her first retention election.

What is 1 year?

Missouri Court that has responsibility for conducting all impeachment trials of state officials.

What is the Missouri Supreme Court?

Age at which all Missouri judges must retire

What is 70?

Number of years in a House member’s term of office

What is 2?

This official presides over the House of Representatives

Who is the Speaker of the House?

Number of Representatives in the Missouri House of Representatives

What is 163?

Percentage of Missouri’s House of Representatives who stand for election every two years.

What is 100%?

Under current law, maximum number of terms a House member may serve

What is 4 terms?

Maximum number of terms that a Governor may serve in Missouri

What is 2 terms?

This is the executive power to disapprove laws passed by the state legislature.

What is the Veto?

The Department of Agriculture and the Department of Higher Education are in this branch of Missouri government.

What is the Executive Branch?

Name of the process under which the state government may take private property for public purposes

What is Eminent Domain?

State approved officials who can verify signatures on documents.

What are Notary Publics?

State officials who engage in habitual drunkenness, willful neglect of duty, or official corruption can look forward to facing this charge.