JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ)

A question to legalize abortion will be on the November ballot but one to award a license for a riverboat casino on the Lake of the Ozarks will not.

The Missouri Secretary of State’s Office said Tuesday — the deadline to approve initiative petitions for the ballot — that the abortion question would be on the November ballot. Questions to raise the minimum wage and guarantee sick leave and to legalize sports gambling in Missouri will also be on the ballot.

A petition to establish a new gambling license for a Lake of the Ozarks-area casino, however, failed to get the required number of signatures in each of Missouri’s six congressional districts.

May was the deadline for people to submit signatures. Thousands of signatures were turned in for petitions on reproductive health care, sports betting, minimum wage increase and a casino development near the Lake of the Ozarks.

To submit their paperwork, petitioners had to show the number of pages per county and contact information for each petition.

Petition pages are copied and distributed to local election authorities for signature verification. The Secretary of State’s Office can either verify every signature or use random sampling and instructions.

If all signatures are verified, the petitions appear on the ballot in November.