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Protesters against a Missouri congressional redistricting plan gather outside the Capitol in May. (David A. Lieb\/AP)<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n

The legal battle over Missouri\u2019s new congressional map is heating up.<\/p>\n

Republican state lawmakers last year approved a new map<\/a> that\u2019s designed to give them one more GOP House seat. In response, opponents filed petitions to prevent the map from being used until a referendum can be held in November to determine whether voters want to allow it to go into effect.<\/p>

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Missouri Secretary of State Denny Hoskins (R) rejected the petitions Tuesday, contending the state constitution doesn\u2019t allow citizens to put forward a referendum on congressional maps. Richard von Glahn of People Not Politicians, the anti-gerrymandering group that spearheaded the petition drive, said Hoskins is wrong and promptly sued to get the referendum on the November ballot.<\/p>\n

If the effort succeeds in court, the state will be thrust into an unusual legal and electoral situation.<\/p>\n

The ballot measure is supposed to prevent the new map from being used until voters weigh in \u2014 but the state used the new map in Tuesday\u2019s primaries. Ordinarily, primaries and general elections must be conducted using the same set of maps so that they\u2019re decided by the same pool of voters.<\/p>

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If a court approves the request for a referendum for November, it may have to wrestle with other questions, such as whether Tuesday\u2019s primary winners are the proper nominees for November.<\/p>\n

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If the court approves the request for a referendum, it could raise questions about whether Tuesday\u2019s primary winners under the new map are the official nominees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8722,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interesting"],"yoast_head":"\nLawsuit over Missouri\u2019s congressional map could throw a wrench into midterms - Moving Insider USA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/?p=8724\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Lawsuit over Missouri\u2019s congressional map could throw a wrench into midterms - 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