Redistricting in a sentence

Henrico Schools officials will host a redistricting presentation tonight at Godwin High School with redistricting consultant Matt Cropper of Cropper GIS, which is working with the school system during the redistricting process.

Residents can attend an upcoming Redistricting Community Meeting to learn about the redistricting process and how they can participate.

The Wisconsin State Legislature may consider an overhaul of the redistricting process that would put a new process in place for the next redistricting cycle, Clinger said.

In stark contrast to the redistricting efforts that followed the 2000 census, the redistricting commission has created a number of the most competitive congressional districts in the country.

Redistricting by neutral or cross-party agency The most commonly advocated electoral reform proposal targeted at gerrymandering is to change the redistricting process.

After the lines were redrawn during the redistricting process that takes place every 10 years, District 41 is decidedly more rural.

Berkeley County is in the process of mailing postcards that reflect redistricting changes to all registered voters, according to the Voter Registration and Elections website.

Chairman Horsford pointed out how voting rights and redistricting efforts in Alabama and Louisiana are affecting residents in that part of the country.

Councilwoman Nithya Raman highlighted an underlying issue, which her colleague Councilman Marqueece Harris-Dawson alluded to, of how the city or the independent redistricting committee can bolster public participation.

Ever since redistricting created the S-BV riding from the Skeena riding and parts of the Prince George-Bulkley Valley and Cariboo-Chilcotin ridings, it has been an NDP stronghold.

Every other county and city the redistricting must be done by an independent body—in those counties, the voters are treated like they are in the corrupt New York or Chicago.

Gerrymandering was rejected by 72% of likely voters, while 81% of voters viewed the partisan political redistricting as cheating.

Halligan, a private attorney who specializes in appeals, has never served as a judge and has no known record on redistricting law.

He explained the redaction as a miscommunication, and said he had made clear to staff that he didn’t want to exert legislative privilege on documents related to redistricting.

However, when the commission deadlocked over a new district map, the Democrat-run state legislature stepped in and gerrymandered its own redistricting map.

In recent years, the voting population made its wishes known on Medicaid expansion, medical marijuana and political redistricting—plus fairly definitive shows of opposition to food taxes and support for liquor deregulation.

In September, Ohio lawmakers held hearings on legislative redistricting maps in various areas of the state to get feedback from voters.

Krekorian said that a discussion over redistricting reform would likely take several more meetings.

Many Chicagoans are voting in a new ward this year after a redistricting battle.

Maps with district lines on display as constituents gathered to voice their opinion to House and Senate members during the Florida Legislature’ s redistricting hearing in Orlando, Wednesday, July 27, 2011.