Voters in St. Louis will decide next month whether to change how they fill vacancies on the Board of Aldermen.
The city in 2020 adopted a nonpartisan approval voting system for mayor, board president, comptroller and members of the board in which voters select as many candidates as they want in the primary with the top two advancing. While Proposition D said the system applied to special elections for aldermanic vacancies, the city’s charter says those must be filled using partisan elections.
Proposition 1 deletes that section of the charter…