Supreme Court of Missouri

Priorities USA v. State of Missouri

January 14, 2020

Summary

The Court affirmed the judgment declaring Missouri's affidavit requirement for voters using non-photo identification unconstitutional because the required statements were contradictory and misleading and therefore lacked a rational relationship to preventing voter fraud. It also upheld the injunction barring enforcement of the affidavit requirement and prohibiting dissemination of materials suggesting that photo identification is required to vote. The Court further held that severing the affidavit requirement in its entirety was appropriate because the remaining affidavit provisions would be redundant and the legislature would not have enacted them independently.