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The Virginia General Assembly passed HJ 615 [15] in 2019 and SJ 18 [16] in 2020 to amend the state constitution to form a redistricting commission for the 2021 redistricting process. In accordance with Virginia's process for amending the state constitution, this proposed amendment had to pass through the General Assembly in two, concurrent ...
Table of United States congressional district boundary maps in the State of Virginia, are presented chronologically below for the most recent iterations following the redistricting of the 1960s, after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that congressional and state legislative districts had to satisfy the one man, one vote criteria for equal ...
The 2020 Virginia Question 1, also known as the Virginia Redistricting Commission Amendment was a proposed amendment to the Virginia Constitution to establish a political commission in order to draw the districts of the U.S House of Representatives seats in Virginia, as well as the districts of the Virginia House of Delegates and State Senate. [3]
Virginia Democrats are in the spotlight as they argue over how legislative and congressional boundaries should be drawn, with only a few days left to make a decision. Redistricting reform has been ...
In 2015, OneVirginia2021 backed SJ 284, an independent redistricting commission with non-partisan criteria co-patroned by Virginia Senators Jill Vogel (R) and Louise Lucas (D). [ 9 ] OneVirginia2021, in conjunction with Richmond public broadcasting station WCVE , produced a documentary film about gerrymandering .
In January 2015 Republican state senator Jill Holtzman Vogel of Winchester and Democratic state senator Louise Lucas of Portsmouth sponsored a Senate Joint Resolution to establish additional criteria for the Virginia Redistricting Commission of four identified members of political parties, and three other independent public officials. The ...
Virginia legislative special elections A pair of special elections in Virginia’s Loudoun County on Jan. 7 that will determine control of the state legislature will bring voters back to the polls ...
The analysis compares maps drawn by lawmakers to a collection of tens of thousands of computer-generated maps that follow a set of more-or-less neutral redistricting criteria set by the legislature.