GOP arranges a do-over for Missouri voters on revamping redistricting
Voters in Missouri will decide this fall whether to abandon a decision they made just two years ago, which was to minimize power politics and maximize fairness and competition in the drawing of legislative boundaries.
A measure added to the November ballot on Wednesday by the Republican-majority General Assembly would essentially reverse those priorities, and also do away with plans to put dominant power over redistricting in the hands of a nonpartisan statistician.
The referendum now looms as an ominous, and rare, potential counterweight to a string of good-government reforms...