Last week, a Florida Circuit Court issued an opinion that the congressional map drawn by the Florida legislature and adopted in 2012 violates the Fair District Amendments to Florida’s constitution, which were adopted by citizen initiative in 2010 to remove partisan influence from the redistricting process. “This decision gives us a new tool to fight partisan gerrymandering,” said national League President, Elisabeth MacNamara. “...We can have redistricting processes that allow the voters to choose their representatives rather than the politicians choosing the voters. We now have a track record in Florida and California, of successful, citizen-led initiatives by the League of Women Voters that have used both redistricting criteria and an independent commission to fight partisan gerrymandering.”
Posted on: Mon, 14 Jul 2014 14:09:46 +0000
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