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xmas74

(30,096 posts)
Thu Sep 18, 2025, 05:08 PM Sep 2025

Hundreds in MO will vote in 2 Congressional districts

https://missouriindependent.com/2025/09/18/court-battle-looms-over-kc-precinct-listed-twice-in-missouris-new-congressional-map/?fbclid=IwQ0xDSwM5U1FjbGNrAzlPKGV4dG4DYWVtAjExAAEec_jjEsI7ZmunHq7KJd83G9CG507nYzwVsMllM6oo_3wbDZjbD4DWj3mjPy0_aem_JIas8XvMHeWNrfgJzGzrVg

The president told Missouri Republicans to pass his map ‘as is,’ and they did – with all its flaws,” Beck said. “Now, the governor has to choose between telling the president his ‘as is’ map might be wrong or signing a flawed map into law and hoping a judge doesn’t care. Any Republican who was told to blindly follow their leaders and not ask questions should be feeling pretty ticked off right about now.”


It's a flawed map, no one double checked and now we have hundreds who can vote in both the Fourth and Fifth. MO GOP is afraid to fo anything about it for fear of angering Trump.

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Hundreds in MO will vote in 2 Congressional districts (Original Post) xmas74 Sep 2025 OP
Unconstitutional. Violates one person, one vote. Justice Brandeis Sep 2025 #1
There are already several lawsuits xmas74 Sep 2025 #2
But both votes for President will count, right ? What a most unfortunate accident ! eppur_se_muova Sep 2025 #3
 

Justice Brandeis

(405 posts)
1. Unconstitutional. Violates one person, one vote.
Thu Sep 18, 2025, 05:18 PM
Sep 2025

That could give conservatives judges an opening to strike the map down. If they want to, that is.

xmas74

(30,096 posts)
2. There are already several lawsuits
Thu Sep 18, 2025, 05:22 PM
Sep 2025

In play. Interesting is how the overlapped district puts Democratic voters in both the Fourth and Fifth. The Fourth is a red district but now? Who knows? Even the mayor of Kansas City is in a new district.

eppur_se_muova

(42,518 posts)
3. But both votes for President will count, right ? What a most unfortunate accident !
Thu Sep 18, 2025, 05:59 PM
Sep 2025

Surely the consequence of a series of unfortunate coincidences.

At least, until we find the emails where those coincidences were carefully worked out in advance.

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