JEFFERSON CITY — Gov. Mike Kehoe is downplaying a feature of Missouri’s new congressional maps that appears to illegally put voters in a Kansas City precinct into two districts.

In a rare public response to concerns raised in a lawsuit seeking to toss the maps, Kehoe’s office said the “confusion” stems from what amounts to a coding error in U.S. Census Bureau records and should be ignored.

“Any suggestion that someone could vote in two congressional districts is false,” Kehoe’s office said late Wednesday. “There is no error with the map.”

The statement comes as the American Civil Liberties Union is citing the precinct in a lawsuit filed last week as one of multiple problems with the new maps, which were drawn at the request of President Donald Trump to help secure one additional safe

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