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Nov. 1, 2018Maryville, MO |  By: John Coffey

Amendment 1 deals with 2 separate components

Missouri voters will be going to the polls Tuesday to cast their ballot on a number of constitutional amendments including Amendment One. Law Specialist with the Northwest Missouri State University Political Science department, Dan Smith, says Amendment One is being billed as Clean Missouri and is proposed to clean state politics. Smith says the amendment has two separate components to it, one deals with ethics reform.

"..would limit size of donations to people running for office.  It's a lobbying restriction that says if you've been a legislator or you've worked for a legislator, you have to wait 2 years before you can become a lobbyist at the state level.  So you can't lobby.  No revolving door is the theory.  It also restricts gifts.  I wanna say it's $5.  You can't receive a gift from a lobbyist that's more than $5.  And again that's if whether you are a legislature employee or an actual legislator."

Smith says the second component is designed to take the politics out of re-districting state legislative districts.

"Right now we have the system where there is a bi-partisan organinization that does the drafting and then the Missouri House and Senate vote on it. And the way this would work is that it would create a new position - an independent person that draws it and then that commission would evaluate it and determine whether or not that's acceptable.  But it would take essentially re-drawing of electoral districts away from the political process."

A complete interview with Law Specialist with the Northwest Political Science department Dan Smith as Smith reviews the Amendments and Propositions on Tuesday's Missouri General Election ballot can be heard here: 

http://www.kxcv.org/news/2018/11/morning-conversation-dan-smith.htm