Last week, Fran Wagner, the president of the League of Women Voters of Kentucky, wrote that the re-drawing of legislative and congressional boundaries to reflect the 2020 census results should be largely the responsibility of a “15-member Citizens Advisory Redistricting Commission.” Ms. Wagner was less than forthcoming about the details; she believes these 15 unelected, unaccountable “third parties” should be appointed by. well, she doesn’t say, but suggests they should come from among “academics, (unidentified) public interest groups, and (other) individuals.”
I can’t think of a fairer, less-partisan, more-objective group of folks than college professors and members of progressive groups, can you? As for other “individuals” serving on this commission, the league would undoubtedly allow any one as long as she/he is not a member, excuse me, a Republican member of the Kentucky General Assembly, whose supermajority members (105 out of a total of 138 state legisla
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Statewide polling results released Thursday by the League of Women Voters of Kentucky reveal that Kentuckians, by more than a 2-1 margin, support automatic restoration of voting rights to people who have completed their felony prison sentences.
The majority of Kentuckians across political affiliation, gender and age categories, support the automatic restoration of voting rights, according to a February 2021 poll of Kentucky registered voters conducted by the Mason-Dixon Polling and Strategy Inc. of Jacksonville, Florida. Overall support is 67% in favor and 28% opposed in the poll taken from Feb. 1-4.
âA constitutional amendment is needed to bring Kentucky into the norm nationally and Kentuckians show strong, sustained support for this commonsense change,â said Fran Wagner, League president, in a news release. âThe time is now for HB 232 to be passed.â
The League of Women Voters of Kentucky released a state report, Felony Disenfranchisement in the Commonwealth of Kentucky, illustrating the progress Kentucky made in 2019 while encouraging further growth.