County Clerks Scramble With Congressional Districts

Missouri Governor Mike Parson Wednesday yesterday signed a new map of the state’s congressional districts. It has 6 Republican Leaning Districts and 2 Democrat-leaning districts in the urban areas-
Because of Republican in-fighting, the final agreement on the districts came down to the last week of the session.
Representative Peggy McGaugh of Carrollton was a County Clerk for 35 years before being elected to the House. She says County Clerks are having to scramble to get voters and ballots matched up to the right districts before the primary elections

 

 

 

The Legislature passed a HOUSE map worked out by Representative Dan Shaul of Jefferson County…

 

Governor Mike Parson says that even if he’d called a special session for the maps, it may not have helped

 

Governor Parson says the pressure is now on County Clerks

 

The governor says he believes the outcome would have been the same if they had voted on this earlier in the session.