The VA Redistricting Commission has been meeting for hours today, with time running out for them to complete their work (next week they’ll have public hearings, then needs to finish it work by October 10). See below for some updates, including from VAPLAN, as well as the Princeton Gerrymandering Project giving the Republican-drawn State Senate map a grade of “F,” describing it as a “Significant Republican advantage.” Is this what Virginians thought they were voting for last year, when they approved Amendment 1? Highly doubtful…
Greta suggests putting up one (House or Senate) Republican drawn map and one (House or Senate) Democratic drawn map for the public hearings next week. That’s convoluted because there’s no way to compare apples/apples nor to assess a single map.
— VAPLAN (@vaplan2018) October 2, 2021
.@BillStanley thinks the “Bob” map that was submitted by a member of the public is the best map, that addresses many of their comments. (@marcussimon ran it through the scoring site and it has two times the Republican partisan lean of the already gerrymandered Commission maps.)
— VAPLAN (@vaplan2018) October 2, 2021
.@ryanmcdougle thinks the House maps are just dandy, good enough, but is very disappointed with the Senate maps. He’s not going to vote for something that violates *HIS VIEW* of the Voting Rights Act.
— VAPLAN (@vaplan2018) October 2, 2021
.@JamesAbrenio doesn’t have rose-colored glasses about the @CommissionVa: “We can’t even agree on what we have consensus on.”
— VAPLAN (@vaplan2018) October 2, 2021
Del. Marcus Simon says there’s no way the House of Delegates is going to pass a map graded “F” by the Princeton Gerrymandering Project
.@marcussimon says you can call @princetongerry a liberal university or whatever, but at the end of the day, no matter what the @CommissionVa does, the General Assembly isn’t going to pass maps rated an F by independent gerrymandering experts.
— VAPLAN (@vaplan2018) October 2, 2021
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