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Missouri referendum petition laws ruled unconstitutional

by Margaret Stafford
| December 7, 2020 4:09 PM

LIBERTY, Mo. (AP) — Laws used by Missouri Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft last year to slow the collection of signatures on a referendum seeking to overturn the state's restrictive abortion laws are unconstitutional, a circuit court judge has ruled.

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