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Board condemns Missouri extraordinary session redistricting effort, calls it threat to voter initiatives
Summary
The Board of Aldermen adopted Resolution 101 condemning the Missouri legislature’s mid‑decade redistricting and related changes to the initiative petition process. Sponsors said the moves would dilute urban and minority representation and make statewide citizen initiatives effectively impossible.
The St. Louis Board of Aldermen on the floor adopted Resolution 101, a formal condemnation of the Missouri General Assembly’s extraordinary session that sponsors said was being used to redraw congressional maps mid‑decade and to change the initiative petition process.
The resolution, introduced by Alderman Rashin Aldrich (Fourteenth Ward) and cosponsored by President Megan Green and others, states the…
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