A showdown on gerrymandering is expected over a proposed initiative that would gut the “fair maps” rules passed by Missouri voters just two years ago. In 2018, Amendment One put the redistricting process in the hands of a nonpartisan demographer. Friday is the deadline for the Missouri House of Representatives to put the referendum on the November ballot. Sean Soendker Nicholson with the Clean Missouri campaign says the new initiative would return the map-making power to politicians and their parties.
Senate Joint Resolution 38 has already passed the state Senate. Conservative backers say the initiative would tighten some ethics rules. But clean-elections advocates say it would also make it harder to challenge in court any maps redrawn after the 2020 Census for partisan advantage.
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