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Significance of this age: 17 1/2
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What is the minimum age for voter registration in Missouri?
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To vote you will need one of these if you expect to be out of town on Election Day.
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What is an Absentee Ballot?
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Not only is this day of the week a Ruby, it also has a lock on elections in Missouri.
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What is Tuesday ?
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To vote in this election you may have to answer One Question: Democrat or Republican?
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What are Primary Elections?
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Number of hours Missouri’s polls are open on Election Day.
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What is 13?
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Number of members of the Missouri Senate.
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What is 34?
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Percentage of the Missouri Senate elected every two years
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What is 50%?
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This powerful Senate official assigns bills to committees, appoints senators to committees and usually presides over the Senate.
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Who is the President Pro Tempore?
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This official is the President ex officio of the Missouri Senate, first in line of succession.
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Who is the Lieutenant Governor?
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This Senator becomes Governor if the Governor and Lt. Governor cannot serve.
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Who is the President Pro Tempore?
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This is the term for a crime which may be punished by a sentence of more than 365 days in jail.
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What is a felony?
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This type of crime is punishable by less than a year in jail
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What is a misdemeanor?
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Name for the formal charge issued by a grand jury
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What is an indictment?
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Unconstitutional use of a state office to obtain employment for a close relative.
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What is Nepotism?
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This provision of Missouri’s Bill of Rights guards against being tried twice for the same crime.
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What is Double Jeopardy?
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Besides St. Louis, Missouri’s Courts of Appeal sit in these two cities.
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What are Kansas City & Springfield?
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All of these cases begin in Missouri’s Circuit courts
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What are civil and criminal?
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Missouri official who selects Judges of the Missouri Supreme Court.
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Who is the Governor?
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These appeals bypass the Missouri Courts of Appeal and head directly to the Missouri Supreme Court
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What are death penalty appeals?
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Generally speaking, Missouri’s Plan for Nonpartisan Judicial Selection does not apply to which areas of Missouri
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What are rural areas?
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Official name of the Missouri Legislature
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What is the General Assembly?
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Portion of each chamber of the state legislature needed to propose an Amendment to the State’s Constitution.
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What is a majority?
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The month during which every legislative year begins in Missouri
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What is January?
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For Missouri’s state legislature this is Veto Month.
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What is September?
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Number of years which pass between redrawing legislative districts
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What is 10?
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Robin Carnahan
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Who is the Secretary of State?
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Peter Kinder
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Who is the Lt. Governor?
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Clint Zweifel
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Who is the State Treasurer?
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Chris Koster
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Who is the State Attorney General
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Susan Montee
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Who is the State Auditor?
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1st Tuesday following the 1st Monday in November.
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What is General Election Day?
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Number of days you must wait to register to vote after becoming a resident of Missouri.
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What is 0?
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Of the following, the one place where you May NOT register to vote: City Hall, County Library, County Clerk’s Office, DMV, Post Office
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What is the Post Office?
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7 days.
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What is the number of days before an election in which an individual must request an absentee ballot?
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Three months during which Missouri conducts regular elections
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What are April, August, and November?
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Two Executive Branch officials who must meet these requirements: 30 years old, 10 years resident of Missouri, and US citizen for 15 years.
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Who are the Governor and Lt. Governor?
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This Executive Branch official is the State’s Chief Legal Officer.
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Who is the Attorney General?
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Among this Executive Branch official’s many duties are acting as custodian of the Great Seal of the State of Missouri
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Who is the Secretary of State?
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Missouri official responsible for making sure that government offices keep their account books in proper form
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Who is the State Auditor?
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This official is the custodian of all the state’s funds
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Who is the State Treasurer?
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Procedure through which Missouri’s voters can repeal existing laws
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What is the Referendum?
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Procedure through which Missouri voters can propose a new law by gathering voters signatures on petitions
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What is the Initiative?
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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
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What is 5%
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These keep Missouri’s Senators and Representatives from serving longer than 8 years in the same job.
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What are Term Limits?
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It doesn’t take a scholar or social worker to recognize that these activities receive more of Missourians’ tax money than any other
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What are education and welfare?
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Number of Judges on the Missouri Supreme Court.
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What is 7?
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Number of years a Missouri Supreme Court Judge Serves during a full term of office.
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What is 12 years?
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Following selection by the Governor, this is the length of time a Missouri judge serves before facing his or her first retention election.
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What is 1 year?
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Missouri Court that has responsibility for conducting all impeachment trials of state officials.
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What is the Missouri Supreme Court?
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Age at which all Missouri judges must retire
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What is 70?
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Number of years in a House member’s term of office
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What is 2?
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This official presides over the House of Representatives
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Who is the Speaker of the House?
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Number of Representatives in the Missouri House of Representatives
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What is 163?
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Percentage of Missouri’s House of Representatives who stand for election every two years.
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What is 100%?
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Under current law, maximum number of terms a House member may serve
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What is 4 terms?
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Maximum number of terms that a Governor may serve in Missouri
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What is 2 terms?
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This is the executive power to disapprove laws passed by the state legislature.
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What is the Veto?
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The Department of Agriculture and the Department of Higher Education are in this branch of Missouri government.
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What is the Executive Branch?
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Name of the process under which the state government may take private property for public purposes
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What is Eminent Domain?
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State approved officials who can verify signatures on documents.
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What are Notary Publics?
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State officials who engage in habitual drunkenness, willful neglect of duty, or official corruption can look forward to facing this charge.
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