{"id":8438,"date":"2026-01-09T12:50:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T18:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/westplexnews.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/09\/denny-hoskins-admits-writing-flawed-ballot-summary-for-missouri-gerrymandering-referendum\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T12:50:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T18:50:11","slug":"denny-hoskins-admits-writing-flawed-ballot-summary-for-missouri-gerrymandering-referendum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/westplexnews.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/09\/denny-hoskins-admits-writing-flawed-ballot-summary-for-missouri-gerrymandering-referendum\/","title":{"rendered":"Denny Hoskins admits writing flawed ballot summary for Missouri gerrymandering referendum"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Missouri Secretary of State Denny Hoskins walks into a Missouri Right to Life rally in March 2025 (Annelise Hanshaw\/Missouri Independent).<\/p>\n

Secretary of State Denny Hoskins admitted Friday that he wrote a ballot summary \u201clikely to create prejudice\u201d against a possible referendum on Missouri\u2019s <\/span>gerrymandered congressional district map<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Hoskins\u2019 lawyer, Kathleen Hunker of the attorney general\u2019s office, made the admission during a hearing in a court case challenging the ballot summary and said it would be revised in negotiations with sponsors of the referendum.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cOn a further reflection of the ballot title, the secretary has come to believe that the language, though defensible, does come close enough to the line of being inherently argumentative and likely to create prejudice,\u201d Hunker told Cole County Circuit Judge Brian Stumpe. \u201cThat means we can do better, and so we are going to withdraw our opposition to the plaintiff\u2019s claim about how the language is inherently argumentative.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

A political action committee called People Not Politicians on Dec. 9 turned in <\/span>more than 300,000 signatures<\/span><\/a> to force a statewide vote on the redistricting plan Republicans muscled through a September special session. The PAC objected to the ballot summary <\/span>as soon as it became public<\/span><\/a> and filed a lawsuit on Nov. 20.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Chuck Hatfield, attorney for People Not Politicians, told Stumpe that Hoskins will have to admit more \u2014 that the language he wrote is insufficient and unfair \u2014 to meet the standards for revising the summary.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cYour honor can\u2019t enter an order just because it\u2019s close to the line,\u201d Hatfield said. \u201cWe\u2019re going to have to have a finding that it\u2019s insufficient and unfair. And I\u2019m asking them to agree to that, and if they don\u2019t, then we need a trial.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The case before Stumpe was scheduled for a trial next Friday. He set a new date, Feb. 9, in case there is no agreement on what the revised summary should say.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Denny Hoskins isn\u2019t verifying one-third of signatures for vote on Missouri\u2019s gerrymandered map<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The ballot summary written by Hoskins asks if voters approve the law, \u201cwhich repeals Missouri\u2019s existing gerrymandered congressional plan that protects incumbent politicians, and replaces it with new congressional boundaries that keep more cities and counties intact, are more compact, and better reflects statewide voting patterns?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

People Not Politicians objects to the characterization of the reapportionment made in 2022 as a \u201cgerrymandered congressional plan that protects incumbents\u201d and the factual basis for saying it keeps more cities and counties intact. The bill itself is just a list of voting districts and counties assigned to each district and the summary Hoskins wrote cannot be found in its contents, the PACs court filings state.<\/span><\/p>\n

The summary\u2019s statement about statewide voting patterns also brought objections. Recent elections gave Republicans about 60% of the vote and Democrats about 40%. The new map would give Democrats 12.5% of the state delegation instead of one-quarter.<\/span><\/p>\n

Republicans want the new congressional map to <\/span>please President Donald Trump<\/span><\/a>, who demanded the changes as a means to protect the GOP\u2019s slim majority in the U.S. House of Representatives.<\/span><\/p>\n

Using the new map, Republicans hope to win seven of the state\u2019s eight congressional seats by adding enough GOP votes to flip the 5th District, currently held by Democratic U.S. Rep. Emanuel Cleaver of Kansas City. Republicans currently hold six of the eight seats.<\/span><\/p>\n

If People Not Politicians and Hoskins\u2019 office can agree on the factual basis for changing the summary, it would end the case but not litigation over the special session and the congressional map.<\/span><\/p>\n

There are at least eight other lawsuits, six in state court and two in federal court, directly or indirectly related to the actions of the legislature or People Not Politicians.<\/span><\/p>\n

The most recently filed case challenges assertions by Hoskins and Attorney General Catherine Hanaway that the map passed in September <\/span>took effect on Dec. 11<\/span><\/a>, 90 days after the end of the special session.<\/span><\/p>\n

In <\/span>that case<\/span><\/a>, filed by the ACLU of Missouri, the state is accusing People Not Politicians and Hatfield of encouraging a lawsuit the PAC could not bring on its own. It has subpoenaed Hatfield, People Not Politicians Director Richard von Glahn and the PAC for records the state believes will show the connection.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe state believes that PNP, Von Glahn or their agents recruited (the ACLU plaintiffs) as proxies to bring this lawsuit,\u201d Solicitor General Louis Capozzi wrote in <\/span>one filing in the case<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

And the state is seeking sanctions against Hatfield in a federal case dismissed in early December that sought to block the petition drive entirely. In the federal filing, Capozzi argued that Hatfield admitted in federal court that the map would take effect even if signatures were submitted to force a vote.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cYet during the following days, defendants and Mr. Hatfield personally have aggressively and repeatedly communicated the opposite position to the media, stating unambiguously that their mere act of submitting referendum signatures immediately froze (the redistricting law) and prevented it from going into effect,\u201d Capozzi wrote.<\/span><\/p>\n

In the Friday hearing before Stumpe, Hatfield noted that Capozzi is seeking sanctions and making accusations that he or People Not Politicians is sponsoring the case over when the map takes effect. The order from Stumpe directing Hoskins to revise the ballot summary needs to settle all legal issues in the case, he said.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cMr. Capozzi sought sanctions against me in federal court, and he\u2019s either confused about what happened in federal court, or he\u2019s intentionally misrepresenting what happened in federal court,\u201d Hatfield said. \u201cI\u2019m assuming he\u2019s confused about what happened, and I don\u2019t want any confusion here.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

There is also confusion over which of the more than 300,000 signatures will be checked to see if the referendum petition meets the threshold of approximately 110,000 signatures spread over six congressional districts.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In court, and in media statements, Hoskins and his attorneys have said only signature pages with at least one signature dated Oct. 14 or later will be checked. Hoskins approved the form of the petition on Oct. 13.<\/span><\/p>\n

Of the 49,773 pages with signatures, 33,068 have been sent to local election authorities to verify whether the signatures are from registered voters. The rest, Hoskins\u2019 office said Friday in a statement to The Independent, \u201chaving invalid dates were scanned, retained, and organized separately.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Speaking on <\/span>KMOX radio on Wednesday morning<\/span><\/a>, Hoskins repeated the statement that signatures aren\u2019t being checked.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re not counting those,\u201d Hoskins said. \u201cAnd, you know, unless a judge issues a court order and says, hey, yes, you must count these. But otherwise, we\u2019ve set those aside. They should not count toward that referendum.\u201c<\/span><\/p>\n

But in statements to People Not Politicians, Chrissy Peters, Hoskins\u2019 director of elections, said the pages retained in the secretary of state\u2019s office are being checked for signature verification.<\/span><\/p>\n

In a statement intended to clarify the confusion, Rachael Dunn, spokeswoman for Hoskins, said Friday that no signature checks are being made in Hoskins to determine if the petition has sufficient signatures to be placed on the ballot.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

She said only signatures on pages sent to local election authorities will be counted.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe secretary of state\u2019s office is not,\u201d Dunn wrote, \u201cutilizing any lines reviewed on pages dated Oct. 13 and earlier for determination towards sufficiency.\u201d<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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