With 3 maps to debate, lawmakers return to Richmond for redistricting talks
With 3 maps to debate, lawmakers return to Richmond for redistricting talks
- September 27, 2018
- Bernie Grofman, poli sci, in The Virginia-Pilot, Sep. 27, 2018
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This week, GOP lawmakers, the state Department of Elections and the voters who originally
sued the state submitted names of potential map drawers that could take over if the
General Assembly can’t agree on a map. The list of names included Bernard Grofman,
a professor of political science the University of California, Irvine who redrew the
3rd Congressional District in 2016 following a similar U.S. Supreme Court ruling.
For the full story, please visit https://pilotonline.com/news/government/politics/virginia/article_2ae68900-c1c8-11e8-8e64-7f74f4fdab73.html.
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