ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Gov. Larry Hogan is making another push for legislative redistricting reform.
The Republican governor held a news conference Friday before hearings on legislation he is backing. The measure aims to take politics out of the process of drawing legislative districts by putting the task in the hands of an independent board.
Under the current system, the governor proposes maps for congressional districts and state legislative districts, and the legislature votes on them in a special session every 10 years. Critics say that enables politicians in power to draw the maps to their liking, instead of in consideration for the people represented.
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Make a grid of horizontal lines then make boxes with all the same population in them.
Now this stupid F'n Democrat Delegate from Silver Spring, Montgomery County introduced a bill this week (HB 766) to hold elections for state offices during Presidential Elections. That is the dumbest crap I have ever heard of. If this passes then we will be overwhelmed with phone calls and mailings that we will get sick of elections, PERIOD!! The ballots would be so overwhelmed with candidates and amendments that nothing will be read and an informed vote made. This is another pathetic idea made by another pathetic Democrat.
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