In a meeting on Wednesday, the Virginia Redistricting Commission cancelled both of its remaining public hearings and meetings, citing a failure to agree on criteria for map drawing. Like in previous meetings, commissioners found themselves at a partisan stalemate.
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After three members of the Virginia Redistricting Commission walked out of a tense meeting last week, a parallel partisan map drawing process and fundamental disagreements regarding race and redistricting remain as the commission starts work on congressional maps.
Virginia’s first-ever redistricting committee missed its Sunday night deadline to draw state legislative maps. And the path forward seemed as murky as ever during a virtual meeting Monday as partisan tensions continued to flair.
After splitting votes, once again, on partisan lines, some commissioners said they failed in the new redistricting initiative. They could shift focus on Thursday.