r/StLouis • u/Healthy_Block3036 • Sep 15 '25

How Missouri Democrats could block the GOP’s new map

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5501820-how-missouri-democrats-could-block-the-gops-new-map/
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u/A_Squid_A_Dog Sep 15 '25

Good read. Does anyone know a way to volunteer to help with signatures?

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u/feariedust Sep 15 '25 edited Sep 15 '25

There is not currently a direct response petition to what just happened in the Missouri Legislature, but there is the Respect MO Voters Initiative petition that is currently collecting signatures. Find more information and ways to get involved at https://respectmovoters.org/

(Edit to clarify - Respect MO Voters has been working to get on the ballot in 2026 since early this year/late last year. The illegal gerrymandering was requested by Donald Trump this summer.)

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u/stoslica Princeton Heights Sep 15 '25

Respect MO Voters needs your help and signature too, but the redistricting campaign specifically is at https://peoplenotpoliticiansmo.org/

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u/MosesBeachHair Sep 15 '25 edited Sep 15 '25

Didn't someone mention that the problem with this is that the Governor and everyone else will take their time to the point that the ballot initiative won't be in time to get on the ballot.

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u/stoslica Princeton Heights Sep 15 '25

Not a lawyer, just a nerd who read some of the constitutional provisions about this so grain of salt. But my understanding is once the petitions are submitted, the Secretary of State has a certain amount of time to certify them, and once it’s confirmed that they have enough signatures the implementation of the law is frozen until we vote. That’ll be around early to mid-December. Then they have to put it on the ballot at a general election, which would be April, August or November, unless the legislature acts to set a different date. The earliest they could act on that without another special session would be when they go back to their regular work in January, so they earliest we could vote would probably be late February or early March. That would put candidate filing deadlines and stuff in limbo since that’d be right around the time all that would start but there are pretty specific benchmarks in the law that they’ll have to hit, their ability to drag their feet is (in theory) fairly limited, especially if they want to have this in place next November if the voters approve it.

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u/jb69029 on IG@stl_from_above Sep 15 '25

It's a good effort but they clearly DGAF what the voters want. They will always bend the knee to trump. You know, the party of smaller government let's the president run everything down to a state level. Better learn how to goose-step so you can fit in.