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The court said a referendum seeking to put the map up for a vote must be placed on the ballot, meaning the state’s elections this fall will take place under its old congressional lines. ================================================================== The Missouri Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the state’s redrawn congressional map cannot be used in this year’s midterm elections, dealing a blow to Republicans. The court ruled that a referendum on whether the state can use the map going forward must be included on the November ballot, meaning Missouri’s fall elections will take place under its previous district lines. The new map was designed...

Only moments ago, Justice Brett Kavanaugh denied Americans for Citizen Voting–Michigan’s (ACVM) emergency request that the U.S. Supreme Court order their proof-of-citizenship and photo-ID constitutional amendment onto Michigan’s November 3 ballot. The ACVM group had collected more than 700,000 signatures—well above the 446,198 required number to appear on the ballot. Staff members of the Michigan Board of Elections allegedly took a “random“ sampling of 1,000 signatures and determined that 17 did not meet the required standard. The problem is, the Michigan Board of Elections, which is under the direction of Michigan’s dirty Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, sat on the...