Undoing Gerrymandering Reform in Missouri

Undoing Gerrymandering Reform in Missouri

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/may/11/missouri-republicans-gutting-gerrymandering-reform

 

Missouri voters approved, via the ballot initiative, an elimination of partisan gerrymandering with a 62% majority. https://www.npr.org/2019/01/08/682979916/missouri-voters-backed-an-anti-gerrymandering-measure-lawmakers-want-to-undo-it It put a non-partisan demographer in charge of drawing district lines. It set a standard of partisan fairness.

 

The state’s Republican Governor and the state’s Republican legislative majority are preparing a new ballot initiative for the November ballot to repeal it and replace with a line drawing process more likely to preserve the large Republican majority in the state legislature. https://apnews.com/318f506968c11c57ef49cb300fd3c17e

 

 

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