Missouri voters reject tougher threshold for citizen-led constitutional changes

Missouri voters blocked Amendment 4, a Republican-backed plan to require a majority in every congressional district for citizen-initiated constitutional amendments, creating a far tougher standard than the statewide simple majority now needed. Supporters argued it would protect the Constitution, while opponents said it would cripple direct democracy. The measure was heavily funded against and its defeat preserves Missouri’s current ballot-process rules, with no impact on legislatively referred measures; the outcome comes amid ongoing redistricting and similar threshold debates in other states.