River Front Times
Today, St. Louis activists who have regularly protested Peabody Energy with high-profile rallies are pushing forward with a new kind of action against the corporation — one that they say has not been tried before in the city.
At first they considered calling it the “Voter Protection Act.” Then it was to be called “Will of the People Act.” And now, finally, the “Your Vote Counts Act.” But in every one of the eight filings Your Vote Counts has made in recent weeks with the Missouri Secretary of State’s Office, the objective has been the same: to make it more difficult for state lawmakers to overturn ballot issues approved by the people.