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The foolish takes about “Wild West” or “anything goes” wholly ignores the Voters Rights Act and why some shapes are not only not gerrymandering, it’s ensuring access.
Good takes by Hannah. If you’re not listening to Hannah here, you’re missing the point, ignoring the Voter Rights Act, and…
… if you feel the “need” to make the map about how your “toddler” colors a map without addressing the Voter Rights Act and how meeting those criteria in “odd shaped” districts isn’t by any measure “gerrymandering”, maybe leave all that map making to the “adults”, you’re not qualified to address the issues in an honest way.
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Give state legislative Republicans credit â they are a superminority that can still drive a news cycle.
The proposal calls for the Illinois Supreme Court to appoint 16 independent, citizen commissioners â evenly divided among Democrats and Republicans as well as people without party affiliation â to create a new legislative map.
It would take the power to draw new district lines out of the hands of the state legislature, which is controlled by Democrats.
Senate Republican Leader Dan McConchie, left, and Sen. Jason Barickman, R-Bloomington, discuss the GOP s latest proposal for redistricting reform during a virtual news conference Tuesday. Zoom.us
The concept of independent maps has strong support among the public and a similar proposal a few years back garnered support from a bipartisan group of lawmakers.