Voters in Missouri passed a constitutional amendment giving a bipartisan commission appointed by the state’s governor control over the redistricting process. Hannah Wheelen, a project manager at the Princeton Gerrymandering Project, said the amendment attracted the moniker “dirty Missouri” for reversing redistricting reforms put in place by a 2018 ballot initiative.
“This passing basically stripped most of the really powerful pieces the Missouri reform had,” Wheelen said.
In 2018, Missouri voters, by a 62 percent to 38 percent margin, approved giving a state demographer selected by political leaders the power to draw legislative maps, among other changes. Following that measure’s passage, the state Legislature placed another constitutional amendment before voters to remove the demographer.
Tuesday, Missouri voters passed that provision, handing the line-drawing power back over to a bipartisan commission.
On the other hand, Virginia voters passed their own constitutional amendment to take redistricting power out of the political branch — sort of. The amendment, which creates a redistricting commission with a mix of elected officials and members of the public, passed on a 65 percent to 34 percent vote Tuesday.
The Link LonkNovember 07, 2020 at 02:54AM
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Democrats have little to show from efforts to wrest control over redistricting - Roll Call
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