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With a week of public hearings and over 40 maps online, analysts gave their opinion and rundown of how the maps distribute Virginians across the Commonwealth into different political districts.
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The Virginia Redistricting Commission failed to agree on one set of maps in a meeting Saturday. The commission was working towards incorporating public feedback into their working draft, but with no single set of maps for the House of Delegates and State Senate, citizens will have over 40 maps to look at.
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As a week of long, tedious meetings comes to a close, its unclear whether the Virginia Redistricting Commission will be able to present the public with a single map as planned. The constitution requires that public hearings be held before an October 10th deadline.
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Virginia’s Redistricting Commission continues to make compromises on its own criteria as an October 10th deadline quickly approaches. Incumbency, a familiar and unpopular issue, is resurfacing.
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As the Virginia Redistricting Commission will consider maps for the House of Delegates Wednesday, the question of “political fairness” is likely to continue to arise, both because of legal requirements on the commission and politics.
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After weeks of debating criteria for map drawers to base their new districts on, the redistricting commission debated where to forgo instructions they gave Thursday, as they looked a the first compromise maps in the redistricting process.
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The Virginia Redistricting Commission discussed the first drafts of Virginia’s political districts Monday, and the maps’ relationship with race was a top focus of discussion.
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The Virginia Redistricting Commission will look at long-awaited new political maps on Monday. Wednesday the Commission gave map-drawers a few sets of instructions to draw the maps, but were at a partisan stalemate over directives around districting and race.
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During a short break during a three-hour meeting of the Virginia Redistricting Commission meeting, a hot-mic moment demonstrated the possibilities and limitations of community input on the process.
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The Virginia Redistricting Commission voted to start their maps from scratch Monday, instead of modifying current political districts, marking a victory for citizen commissioners.