St. Louis Post-Dispatch: “Petition drive on St. Louis redistricting now aims for February 2022 election”

“A group petitioning to shift city ward redistricting from aldermen to an independent commission now hopes to get its proposition before voters next February,

‘With more things opening up as a result of the COVID-19 vaccine, our coalition has decided to continue collecting signatures this summer with a goal of turning in by early September,’ said Taylor Jackson, the group’s campaign director.

The petition drive proposition also would make it more difficult for aldermen to make changes in the city’s new nonpartisan “approval voting” system enacted as Proposition D at the election last November.

The petition plan also makes some other changes, including requiring aldermen with a conflict of interest on legislation to refrain from voting instead of simply disclosing a conflict.

Other provisions would bar former aldermen and aldermanic employees from lobbying the board for a year after they leave and would change the board’s name to the Board of Alderpersons.”

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