Michigan voters to decide how their electoral maps are drawn

Michigan voters to decide how their electoral maps are drawn

Michigan voters to decide how their electoral maps are drawn

By / Politics / Monday, 01 October 2018 06:03

DETROIT — Voters in Michigan will decide in November whether to entrust how their voting districts are drawn to an independent commission rather than the Legislature, which could alter the balance of power in a state that Republicans have controlled since 2010 and where Donald Trump eked out the slimmest of victories two years ago.

Three other states have redistricting initiatives on this year’s ballots and there are ongoing legal challenges to the political boundaries in about a dozen states that claim they are the result of political or racial gerrymandering — the process by which districts are drawn to favor the party in power.

 

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