New York redistricting commission cedes drawing power to state Legislature

[brooklynite]

Source: New York Daily News

ALBANY — The bipartisan state commission tasked with redrawing legislative and congressional lines called it quits Monday without submitting any new maps to lawmakers.

Members of the deadlocked New York State Independent Redistricting Commission, meant to take the politics out of the process, pointed fingers across the aisle as they admitted defeat.

“We have negotiated with our Republican colleagues in good faith for two years to achieve a single consensus plan. At every step, they have refused to agree to a compromise,” the Democratic members said in a statement.

The stalemate came weeks after the 10-member commission voted to send a pair of competing maps, one drawn up by Republicans and one by Democrats, to the Legislature as each side blamed the other for the partisan bickering.

Read more: https://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/new-york-elections-government/ny-redistricting-commission-state-legislature-20220124-7gmarf3vxnajhk4oh6v2jgp42y-story.html

[roamer65]

1. Good, the Democratic legislature can gerrymander the hell out of it.

👍👍

Should help balance the gerrymandering in TX.

[Alexander Of Assyria]

2. How can it be independent if the members are identifying as party representatives??

I propose judges, as currently constituted, nominate and appoint a panel of other superior and trial court judges be the independent commission.

The final, map to voted on by he voters, passed by filibuster majority percentage.