St. Louis Public Radio: “St. Louis residents vote Tuesday on redistricting changes, infrastructure borrowing”

“A major change to how wards are drawn in the city of St. Louis will go in front of voters Tuesday.

Proposition R would move responsibility for redistricting from aldermen to a citizen commission. Aldermen would have input on the members of the commission and could make suggestions on the maps the commission produces.

‘People should be able to pick their representatives, and not the other way around,’ said Jami Cox, the policy chair of Reform St. Louis, the main backers of Proposition R.

The measure also strengthens the board’s conflict of interest policy and makes the aldermen’s financial disclosure forms public.

‘This policy is about creating a better future for St. Louis,’ [Cox] said.

Show Me Integrity, the group behind Reform St. Louis, also led the effort to pass Proposition D, which instituted nonpartisan approval voting for mayoral and most aldermanic elections.”

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