On December 9, opponents of the new Missouri U.S. House district boundaries submitted 305,000 signatures on a referendum petition. Under normal Missouri practice, that should be enough to stop the new law (with the new district boundaries) from taking effect until the voters vote on the measure. The requirement is approximately 110,000 signatures.
However, the Secretary of State says he doesn’t need to check the signatures until July 2026, which would mean that the referendum had been filed too late. See this story.
The Secretary of State also says he has the authority to declare that the referendum process can’t be used to influence U.S. House districts, because some people believe that the initiative and referendum can’t be used to write election laws for congressional elections.
Such efforts and litigation could be avoided by voters self-districting for congressional elections.
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4328642
There would be no need to district anyone if nation states were broken up to single voting districts. These nations would be about 10k – 1 million total human population of which about 10-1k would be well off male head of household voters.
These men would all be about 40-60 years of age, military and law enforcement veterans and still active in the reserves, descendants of direct male line voters and property owners in their local areas for several generations, active in the dominant religious services of their local community, and of its dominant racial, ethnic, linguistic and cultural group.
They would pass annually physical and mental tests and own and demonstrate sufficient proficiency with weapons and ammunition, pay poll taxes, and recite all local laws from memory as well.