Analysis: 8th District local panels don't reflect populations; together, sparsely populated Carter and Reynolds counties carry as much weight as Cape Girardeau County

Thursday, January 31, 2013

Missouri's laws for replacing members of Congress who leave in the middle of a term require that teams of political activists bypass a traditional primary election. Instead of voters-at-large determining who the next Republican or Democrat nominees will be, 86 Republicans and 68 Democrats -- and a handful of Libertarians -- will offer names that will appear on a special election ballot.

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