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[VA] GOP Delegates Reject Giving Redistricting Job to Impartial Panels
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| Last Edited | ArmyDem Jan 20, 2007 01:55pm |
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| Media | Newspaper - Washington Post |
| News Date | Saturday, January 20, 2007 07:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | By Amy Gardner
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, January 20, 2007; Page B04
RICHMOND, Jan. 19 -- A series of measures aimed at removing politics from the often partisan process of drawing legislative and congressional district boundaries met with swift defeat Friday in a Republican-controlled committee of the House of Delegates.
Along party lines, Republicans, who control both chambers of the General Assembly, defeated several measures calling for independent redistricting commissions to draw boundaries. Although similar legislation emerged from a Senate committee this week and appears likely to win passage on the Senate floor, it, too, is likely to fail in the House of Delegates.
At issue is an intensely political process that all agree is one of the most significant prerogatives of the party that controls the assembly. Every 10 years, after new census data are released, the legislature redraws the boundaries of its own 140 districts as well as those of Virginia's 11 congressional seats to reflect shifting population trends. |
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