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IL: Effort Fails For Want of Cash and Signatures
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Thursday, 8 July 2010 07:07

Via Southtown Star

Organizers of a failed attempt to amend the Illinois Constitution’s rules for legislative redistricting came up short this spring on more than just gathering signatures to get the plan before voters: They lacked cash.

Despite support from a number of good-government type groups, supporters of the Illinois Fair Map Amendment mustered $47,600 for their cause, including a whopping $25,000 from a single donor in March. The initiative, headed by the Illinois League of Women Voters, spent just more than $45,000, leaving about $2,200 in the bank.

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Last Updated on Thursday, 8 July 2010 07:07
Redistricting in the news
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Wednesday, 5 May 2010 06:50

Cribbing from the Civic Forum PAC:

Hat tip to Swing State Project for catching the recent goings-on in regard to redistricting in Florida and Illinois.

Here’s the status of redistricting measures currently at issue in Florida, via the Washington Independent’s Jimm Phillips:

The Florida legislature approved a state constitutional amendment yesterday that, like two citizen-sponsored amendments also on the November ballot, aims to change the state’s redistricting rules…

The two citizen-sponsored amendments — one covers state legislative redistricting, the other U.S. congressional — would prevent the legislature from drawing maps that favor incumbents or candidates from a particular political party, and would require districts be compact and contiguous and to follow existing geographic and political boundaries as much as possible. A citizen-sponsored amendment must get enough signatures to equal eight percent of the number of voters in the last presidential election – 676,811 for 2010 – in order to qualify for the ballot.

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Last Updated on Wednesday, 5 May 2010 06:50
IL: Sen Dems Ram Through Plan – Fate in House Uncertain
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Thursday, 15 April 2010 08:14

From the News Gazette:

Using their supermajority, Senate Democrats pushed their own legislative redistricting plan to victory in the Senate on Wednesday.

But the proposal may have more trouble in the House.

The Democrats needed the vote of virtually every one of their 37 members to approve the constitutional amendment in the Senate.

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Last Updated on Thursday, 15 April 2010 08:14
IL: Sorting out the process
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Monday, 12 April 2010 08:26

From Illinois State House News via Fox 55:

The state is scheduled to redraw its legislative districts in 2011. The process – known as redistricting – occurs every ten years and relies on data collected through the federal census the year before.

But the current redistricting procedure has been encumbered by drawn-out partisan battles, legal challenges, and arbitrary draws from a hat.

This session, Democratic and Republican lawmakers have introduced five proposed Constitutional Amendments that would change the redistricting process.

Proposals from both parties share a number of planned changes, such as the de-coupling of Senate and House districts and the establishment of public hearings on redistricting.

But lawmakers are locked in a partisan conflict over who ultimately decides how the state’s legislative map is drawn.

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Last Updated on Monday, 12 April 2010 08:26
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