COLUMBIA — The Missouri Secretary of State's office has thrown out nearly 17,000 pages of signatures collected by political campaign committee People Not Politicians Missouri for its effort to force a statewide vote on Missouri's new gerrymandered congressional map, according to court documents.

The number was listed in a document filed Monday in the docket of People Not Politicians' case against Secretary of State Denny Hoskins over the validity of signatures for the campaign committee's referendum petition.

The document, filed by People Not Politicians Director Richard von Glahn, said Hoskins' office provided von Glahn with the number of pages submitted to each county for signature verification and counting. Every page does not necessarily contain the same number of signatures.

The Secretary of State's office deemed 33,068 pages valid and sent them to local election authorities, according to court documents. The Secretary of State's office rejected 16,695 pages of signatures, and the secretary of state's director of elections told People Not Politicians that their office determined the validity of pages using the date of the signatures, according to the document.

Court documents said the Secretary of State's office is still reviewing signature pages.