Special master offers alternative Virginia congressional maps
Special master offers alternative Virginia congressional maps
- November 19, 2015
- Poli sci prof Bernie Grofman proposes new boundaries for Virginia’s first-fourth congressional districts that give African-American voters "a realistic opportunity to elect candidates of choice"
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From Roll Call:
University of California, Irvine, political science professor Bernard Grofman, whom
a federal three-judge panel appointed as the special master earlier this fall after
the state’s General Assembly failed to agree upon a new map, rejected the eight existing
map proposals. In Grofman’s proposals, the 4th Congressional District would give African-American
voters “a realistic opportunity to elect candidates of choice,” according to his report.
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