Expand<\/a><\/p>\nKay Park, president of the League of Women Voters of Missouri, said her organization did not get many calls from voters about the changing districts. But several people she did talk to felt like the redrawn map did not represent them as well as the one they had before \u2014 and which has now returned.<\/p>\n
The rapid changes made the primary an unusual blip<\/p>\n
Ashley Sadowski has tried to follow the saga closely. She even tuned in to a state Supreme Court hearing Thursday at which judges considered whether to hold Republican Secretary of State Denny Hoskins in contempt for not following an order to use the 2022 version of the districts.<\/p>\n
But Sadowski has still found it nearly impossible to understand the back and forth and the switching maps.<\/p>\n
The new maps moved Sadowski\u2019s Kansas City home into the 4th District. Sadowski, who calls herself a progressive independent, studied the Democratic candidates carefully for the primary because she had lived in the 5th District for so long.<\/p>\n
Now she is back in the 5th for the general election.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s just astounding to me how we all showed up in August to vote on a map that wasn\u2019t legal,\u201d Sadowski said.<\/p>\n
The switch left 1 voter untouched \u2014 but embarrassed<\/p>\n
Leslie French\u2019s home in Platte City, about 25 miles northwest of Kansas City, remains in the Republican-dominated 6th district no matter which map gets used in November. But French, also a Democrat, can\u2019t get over what has been going on.<\/p>\n
To switch districts after they were drawn following the 2020 census is unfair and seems to be something a country not serious about a democracy would do, French said.<\/p>\n
She said she was surprised \u2014 and thankful \u2014 that U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh saw through what she called a blatant power grab and restored the earlier map.<\/p>\n
French has been to rallies over gerrymandering and redistricting and sometimes wears a Lady Liberty costume.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s embarrassing,\u201d French said. \u201cWhen we travel to foreign countries, I\u2019m tempted to tell people I am Canadian.\u201d<\/p>\n
Collins reported from Columbia, South Carolina, and Mulvihill from Haddonfield, New Jersey. Associated Press reporter David A. Lieb contributed from Jefferson City, Missouri.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By NICK INGRAM, JEFFREY COLLINS and GEOFF MULVIHILL KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) \u2014 Leslie Moody has strong opinions…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":459938,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[9516,181372,991,74,76,75],"class_list":["post-459937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-missouri","tag-missouri-voters","tag-redistricting","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=459937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459937\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/459938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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