Local election officials go with Missouri's gerrymandered congressional map despite uncertainty
Missouri election officials will begin mailing Aug. 4 primary ballots Tuesday to military and overseas voters using the state’s gerrymandered congressional districts, even as the legal status of those districts remains unresolved.
Missourians in 28 counties have been assigned to a different congressional district than they were in 2024, thanks to a map that was drawn by Republicans last year as part of a plan to unseat Democratic U.S. Rep. Emanual Cleaver in the 5th District. Voters can check their registration through the secretary of state’s office to see whether their district changed.
Along with the changes that added voters in 14 counties to the 5th District, boundaries for five of the state’s seven other districts shifted as well. For example, St. Charles and Warren counties in eastern Missouri, previously split between the 2nd and 3rd districts, are now entirely within the 3rd District.
Boone County Clerk Brianna Lennon, who in May said she would not update her voter lists until Secretary of State Denny Hoskins decided whether there will be a referendum on the new map, said Monday that she has her lists ready with voters assigned to the districts that will be used in the primary.
https://missouriindependent.com/2026/06/16/local-election-officials-go-with-missouris-gerrymandered-congressional-map-despite-uncertainty/