u/border_dad
· 5h
August new map. November 2022 map. One million voters. Keep that order.
Election chaos in this red state just got even stranger for Republicans after Supreme Court ruling
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Missouri voted one map in August. The Court sent November back to 2022.
Summary
- Fox News reports the Supreme Court last week blocked a new Missouri congressional map that President Donald Trump and state Republicans backed, so the state will use its 2022 map in November.
- Missouri held its August primary under the new map, so nominees were chosen on one set of lines. Those lines change before the general election, and some voters will be assigned to a different House district in November than the one they used in the primary.
- The new map would have shifted parts of Democratic Rep. Emanuel Cleaver's Kansas City district into more Republican-leaning areas. Republicans hoped to win seven of eight House seats. The GOP now holds six of eight.
- The Associated Press estimated the change could affect more than 1 million voters, nearly one-fourth of Missouri's electorate, after more than a year of legal fights and with November weeks away.
Commentary
A Kansas City dad still tapes a sample ballot to a fridge and knows a district is supposed to be a line he can find, not a primary on one map and a general on another. He did not take a Tuesday off so a million neighbors would need a new address book.
August primary, new map. November, 2022 map. One million voters moved. The honest household already paid the poll-worker overtime. The vinyl chair at the clerk's window still waits.
Look every working father who still drives a neighbor to the precinct in the eye and answer this: if the Court can swap the map after the primary, who still owns the next House seat that street thought it had already picked?
Comments
If the primary already used the new map, why is November back in 2022?
u/midwest_vet
· 4h
I stood a line so a ballot still matched a precinct. A swapped map is not a clerk's joke.
u/rule_first
· 4h
Cleaver district stays safer. GOP six of eight. Seven was the hope. Print the three.
u/tokyo_ally
· 3h
Allied clerks still treat a district line as a published fact, not a mid-cycle surprise.
u/docket_rat
· 3h
Year-plus of fights. Weeks to November. File the clock.
u/night_shift
· 2h
I still clock a dock at 2 a.m. I want the next ballot on the map I already used.
u/texas_mom
· 90m
A million voters in the wrong district is not a civics puzzle. It is a warning the street already paid.
u/gulf_watch
· 55m
A post-primary map swap is a second border around a House seat. The first line should have been enough.
u/press_clip
· 30m
Fox printed the Court block, Cleaver, and the AP million. Argue those nouns.
u/soc_lead
· 15m
Publish the November lines. Staff the clerks. A 2022 map is still a map.
Paraphrased comments. Not attributed.
