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Voter Guide · Macon County
Primary Election · Tuesday, August 4, 2026 | Polls open 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. | By Staff
In a Missouri primary you vote one party’s ballot, which you choose at your polling place. No matter which ballot you take, every Macon County voter also decides four statewide ballot measures and, this year, whether to dissolve the La Plata Special Road District. Pick your ballot below to see the candidates, and use the pop-out to view the actual sample ballot.
View a past election: April 7, 2026 General Municipal Election
Date
Tuesday, Aug. 4, 2026
Polls open
6 a.m. to 7 p.m.
On every ballot
4 state measures+ La Plata road district
Questions?
Macon County Clerk660-385-2913
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, July 8, 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 through Monday, August 3.
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.
Select the party ballot you plan to vote. The state measures below are on all four ballots.
Ballot
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)
Macon County Associate Circuit Judge (vote for one)
Macon County Treasurer (vote for one)
Macon County Collector of Revenue (vote for one)
Macon County Prosecuting Attorney (vote for one)
Macon County Circuit Clerk (vote for one)
Macon County Clerk (vote for one)
Macon County Presiding Commissioner (vote for one)
State Auditor (vote for one)
U.S. Representative (vote for one)
State Senator (vote for one)
State Representative (vote for one)
State Auditor (vote for one)
U.S. Representative (vote for one)
State Representative (vote for one)
The non-partisan ballot has no candidate races. It carries the four state ballot measures and the La Plata Special Road District question, all explained below.
These appear on every ballot. The measures are numbered 1, 2, 4, and 5; there is no Amendment 3 on this ballot. Summaries below are based on the official Fair Ballot Language from the Missouri Secretary of State.
Article IV, Section 47(c) · SJR 1
Continues the existing one-tenth of one percent state sales and use tax for another 10 years. The money funds soil and water conservation and state parks and historic sites, and raises about $140 million a year. This is not a new tax; it is the same tax voters have renewed before, back on the ballot for renewal.
Continue the existing sales and use tax for 10 more years.
End the tax.
Tax impact: Neither raises nor lowers taxes; it keeps the current rate in place.
HCS HJR Nos. 23 & 3
Requires every charter county, including Jackson County, to elect its county assessor, and requires those assessors to meet training standards set by state law. Under current rules, Jackson County is exempt from electing its assessor.
Require all charter counties to elect an assessor and require assessor training.
Keep current rules, which exempt Jackson County and do not require the training.
Tax impact: None. State and local governments estimate no costs or savings.
HCS HJR No. 3 · Second Extraordinary Session
Changes how citizen initiative petitions amend the Missouri Constitution. It keeps a statewide majority requirement, adds a new requirement that a majority of voters in each congressional district must also approve a petition, and gives each voter the full text of an initiative petition with their ballot.
Require majority approval in each congressional district and provide the full petition text to voters.
Leave the current initiative process unchanged.
Tax impact: Does not raise or lower taxes. The Department of Corrections estimates increased costs up to $21,817 a year; the Office of State Public Defender estimates an unknown impact; other entities estimate no cost.
SS SCS HCS HJR Nos. 173 & 174
Requires the legislature to phase out and eliminate the individual state income tax as state revenue grows; authorizes expanding sales and use taxes; curtails constitutional limits on taxing goods and services; and requires local tax rate cuts, without reducing school funding, if local sales tax revenue increases.
Phase out the individual income tax based on revenue growth and authorize broader sales and use taxes.
Do not make those changes.
Tax impact: Unknown at this time. The measure itself has no direct impact; implementing legislation would. State entities expect a $57,000 yearly reduction in income-tax check-off donations and implementation costs of at least $100,000.
Local question
Asks: “Shall the La Plata Special Road District be dissolved?” This local question appears on every Macon County ballot in this election.
Dissolve the La Plata Special Road District.
Keep the district in place.
Open to the public under Missouri’s Sunshine Law.
Tammy Perkins, election authority for Macon County, will conduct the Public Pre-Test of the voting equipment for the August 4, 2026 Primary at 9:00 a.m. on Monday, July 21, 2026, in the County Commission office at 101 East Washington Street, Suite B, Macon, MO.
Tentative agenda: convening the board, verification of the public test, and adjournment. News media may obtain copies of the notice by calling Tammy Perkins, 101 East Washington Street, Building #1, Suite B, Macon, MO 63552, 660-385-2047.