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Today's Poll!Dixon pledges to refile redistricting amendment
Monday, June 11, 2012
State Sen. Bob Dixon said last week he will refile his proposed Constitutional amendment, to make legislative redistricting a more transparent and accountable process, for next year’s lawmakers to consider.
He proposed a similar amendment this year, that passed the Senate on a 32-0 vote but never was debated on the House floor.
Dixon said in a news release he plans to refile the proposed amendment “to address lingering issues with the state’s redistricting process,” after last month’s Missouri Supreme Court ruling that the process and the final map redrawing the state’s House of Representatives districts didn’t violate the state Constitution.
Under the current Constitutional requirements, after the U.S. Census reports the new, official population numbers every 10 years, the two major political parties recommend names to the governor, who then names two bipartisan commissions to draw the new lines for the state House and Senate districts.
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2warped757 1 year ago
And for Heaven's sake, next time could they at least follow county lines where possible? There are a bunch of little parcels of land, with no population whatsoever (sometimes it is farmland, other times a body of water) that crosses county lines and the district boundaries take out just a tiny chunk across the countyline. I can't figure out what the purpose of that was at all, except to drive the county clerks crazy trying to figure out how to account for it in their addressing/precinct files for voters.
Littleinvestor 1 year ago
The maps look like they were drawn by kindergartners. County lines for boundaries would be nice but state roads and rivers could be used to. Mostly the lines just head off across country willy nilly.
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