The NY State Legislature plans to vote on new legislative and congressional district maps it’s tasked to draw next week, after rejecting two competing versions drafted by an independent commission tasked with drawing maps free of partisan gerrymandering.
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Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie and Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins said the maps drawn by the Task Force on Demographic Research and Reapportionment will be voted on at an undetermined date next week, inBy voting next week, election boards across the state can adapt election districts to the new maps, allowing candidates to begin the petitioning process in March, as required to get on the ballot.
Many groups urged the IRC to keep communities under at least one legislative district as a way of boosting their power, and ultimately, elect a representative who reflects a neighborhood’s dominant demographics. Under state and federal rules, maps must be contiguous, composed of roughly the same number of people, and must not discriminate against historically marginalized populations.
Under state law, the rejection allows the joint Task Force on Demographic Research and Reapportionment, which had drawn the 2012 maps, to redraw the new versions. The task force is headed by Assembly Members Kenneth Zebrowski of Rockland County and Philip Palmensano of Steuben County, along with state Senators Michael Gianaris of Queens and Andrew Lanza of Staten Island. Zebrowski and Gianaris are Democrats; Palmensano and Lanza are Republicans.
Even with Lanza in support of a hearing, there are fears any map coming out of the Assembly and Senate, in which Democrats hold a supermajority, will be severely gerrymandered, effectively re-injecting politics into a process intended to be free of it. State rules do not require lawmakers to hold such a hearing.On Tuesday, the coalition of groups sent another letter to the task force requesting a hearing as soon as the maps are created.
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