Lawsuit filed after Missouri's redistricting referendum gets blocked
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A group has filed a lawsuit against Missouri Secretary of State Denny Hoskins after he blocked an effort to put Missouri's controversial redrawn congressional map on the ballot.
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Missouri’s Republican Secretary of State Denny Hoskins said Tuesday that he wouldn’t certify a referendum seeking to undo the state’s new GOP-drawn congressional map, arguing that the effort was unconstitutional.
Missouri Republicans’ newly drawn congressional map that eliminates one of the state’s Democratic-held seats will move forward after the secretary of state refused to certify a referendum seeking to undo the effort.
Missouri Secretary of State Denny Hoskins blocked a public vote on the state’s new congressional map Tuesday, declaring a referendum petition unconstitutional a few hours before polls closed in the primary election.
A group has filed a lawsuit against Missouri Secretary of State Denny Hoskins after he blocked an effort to put Missouri's controversial redrawn congressional map on the ballot.
The campaign seeking a public vote on Missouri’s gerrymandered congressional map is asking a Cole County judge to do more than put the referendum on the November ballot — it wants the court to prohibit the state from using the map at all this fall.
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