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The Guardian - US
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Sam Levine

Organizers submit enough signatures to block gerrymandered Missouri map

protesters fill a government building
People gather at the Missouri statehouse in Jefferson City in September to protest against the legislature’s efforts to change the state’s congressional maps. Photograph: Tammy Ljungblad/Kansas City Star via Getty Images

Organizers challenging Missouri’s gerrymandered congressional map say they turned in enough signatures on Tuesday to block the map from going into effect and to force a referendum on the map next year.

People not Politicians, the main organization behind the effort, said they submitted more than 300,000 signatures to the secretary of state’s office, nearly triple the number required to block the map from going into effect. Missouri’s Republican secretary of state now needs to review the signatures.

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