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Voter Guide · Macon County
General Election · Tuesday, November 3, 2026 | Polls open 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. | By Staff
Macon County voters will choose a state auditor, a congressman, state legislators, and eight county officers on Nov. 3, and decide four constitutional amendments and a referendum on Missouri’s congressional map. Below is every race and measure on the county’s sample ballot, with a plain explanation of what each measure would do.
How Macon County voted in the August 4 primary · April 7, 2026 General Municipal Election
Election Day
Tue., Nov. 3Polls 6 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Register by
Wed., Oct. 7Deadline for this election
No-excuse absentee
Oct. 20 to Nov. 2In person, County Clerk’s office
Mail ballot request
Wed., Oct. 21Last day to request by mail
What to bring, how to register, how to vote early, and where to vote.
Photo ID required
Bring a Missouri driver’s license or state ID, a U.S. passport, or a military photo ID. Voters without an accepted ID may cast a provisional ballot.
Registration
Register by Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2026, the deadline for this election. Check your registration at sos.mo.gov.
Absentee voting
No-excuse absentee voting at the Macon County Clerk’s office runs Tuesday, Oct. 20, through Monday, Nov. 2. Voters with a qualifying excuse may vote absentee now.
Hours: 8:30 a.m. to noon and 1 to 4 p.m., Monday through Friday.
County Clerk
Tammy Perkins, election authorityPolling place map
See every Macon County polling place on a map you can zoom and explore.
Polling places
Find your polling place and the wards or townships each one serves.
Every Macon County voter receives the same ballot. Listed in ballot order. Each race also has a write-in line.
State Auditor (vote for one)
U.S. Representative (vote for one)
State Senator (vote for one)
State Representative (vote for one)
Macon County Recorder of Deeds (vote for one)
Unopposed on the ballot
Macon County Associate Circuit Judge (vote for one)
Unopposed on the ballot
Macon County Treasurer (vote for one)
Unopposed on the ballot
Macon County Collector (vote for one)
Unopposed on the ballot
Macon County Prosecuting Attorney (vote for one)
Unopposed on the ballot
Macon County Circuit Clerk (vote for one)
Unopposed on the ballot
Macon County Clerk (vote for one)
Unopposed on the ballot
Macon County Presiding Commissioner (vote for one)
Unopposed on the ballot
Judicial retention (yes or no on each)
Each measure passes with a simple majority of votes cast on it. Summaries are based on the official ballot titles and Fair Ballot Language from the Missouri Secretary of State.
HCS HJR 73 · Proposed by the General Assembly
Repeals the abortion-rights amendment voters approved in 2024, which protects abortion through fetal viability, and replaces it with narrower rules. Abortion would be allowed for medical emergencies, rape and incest before 12 weeks of gestation, and fetal anomalies. The legislature could regulate abortion by law, and minors would need a parent’s or judge’s consent. The amendment also writes a ban on gender transition procedures for minors into the constitution.
Read the full story: Amendment 3 explained →
Repeal the 2024 amendment; limit abortion to emergencies, rape and incest before 12 weeks, and fetal anomalies; ban gender transition procedures for minors.
Keep the 2024 amendment, with abortion available through fetal viability.
Tax impact: Does not raise or lower taxes. Greene County estimates an unknown increase in tax revenue; other entities estimate no costs or savings.
Initiative Petition 2026-106 · Proposed by initiative petition
Makes initiative and referendum fundamental rights and bars the legislature from weakening them. Lawmakers could change or repeal any law or amendment passed by citizen initiative since 2010 only if 80% of both the House and Senate send the change to a statewide vote. Courts could rewrite misleading ballot summaries. Current signature and simple-majority requirements stay the same.
Read the full story: Amendment 6 explained →
Require 80% of both chambers, plus a statewide vote, to change initiative-passed measures; protect the initiative process from legislative limits.
Keep current rules, under which the legislature can amend initiative-passed statutes by ordinary majority.
Tax impact: None. State and local governments estimate no costs or savings.
SS SCS SJR 95 · Proposed by the General Assembly
Creates the Show-Me Prosperity Fund, a permanent state investment fund held in S&P 500 index funds. Nothing could be spent from it until its earnings are large enough to replace all state taxes; then those taxes would be eliminated. Yearly spending would be capped at 3% of the fund’s average value, and the legislature could restore taxes if the fund failed. The amendment does not say how the fund would be filled.
Read the full story: Amendment 7 explained →
Create the fund and eliminate state taxes once its earnings can replace them.
Create no fund; leave state taxes as they are.
Tax impact: No immediate effect. Could eliminate state taxes if the fund’s earnings ever become large enough.
CCS HCS SJR 87 · Proposed by the General Assembly
Moves the county sheriff from state law into the constitution: every county except St. Louis City, St. Louis County, and St. Charles County must elect a sheriff to a four-year term, and the sheriff’s duties are written in. An elected sheriff could be removed only by a quo warranto court action brought by the attorney general. Today a county prosecutor can also bring that action.
Read the full story: Amendment 8 explained →
Put the elected sheriff and the sheriff’s duties in the constitution; allow removal only by an attorney general quo warranto action.
Keep the current statutes on sheriffs, which the legislature can change by law.
Tax impact: None. State and local governments estimate no costs or savings.
HB 1 (2025 Second Extraordinary Session) · Referendum petition
Asks whether to approve the congressional map the legislature passed in September 2025. The new map splits Kansas City among three districts. This year’s congressional races use the 2022 map regardless; if approved, the new map would first be used in 2028.
Read the full story: Proposition A explained →
Approve the 2025 congressional map.
Keep the congressional districts enacted in 2022.
Tax impact: None. State and local governments estimate no costs or savings.