In the bill text detailing Missouri's new congressional maps, one Kansas City precinct is included in both the 4th and 5th districts. That would mean those voters would get to vote for two representatives in Congress.

It took Missouri Republicans in the state legislature a little more than one week to pass new Congressional maps that carve up the Kansas City area.

In their efforts to give the GOP a leg up ahead of next year’s midterms, Gov. Mike Kehoe and state lawmakers may have overlooked something: House Bill 1 includes the same Kansas City precinct in two Congressional districts.

The newly drawn maps that legislators passed last Friday, and that now await final approval from Kehoe, contain an area of about 875 Kansas City voters who seemingly would have two Congressional represe

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