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Third Parties to be Eliminated from Ballot

February 25, 1997
By: Sarah Coleman
State Capital Bureau

Voting in Missouri elections may get less complicated. Sarah Coleman has the story from Jefferson City.

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A bill proposed before a senate house committee would make it easier to remove third parties from elction ballots.

State senator Bill McKenna says the bill is neccesary to remove old parties from Missouri's ballot and to decrease voter confusion.

Senator Bill McKenna...


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OutCue: ...the whig party on the ballot.
Contents: If the law were the same today as it use to be, we would still have the Bull Moose party, the whig party on the ballot.

During the hearing, no one spoke in opposition to the proposal.

Reporting form Jefferson City, I'm Sarah Coleman.