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Redistricting task force fields charges of gerrymandering
Albany, NY, Jan 31, 2012 — The Legislative task force on redistricting held its first meeting Monday since new proposed maps were released. Lawmakers heard numerous accusations that the new lines were "gerrymandered." And as Karen DeWitt reports, they say the proposed maps are not set in stone.
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Assembly Chair of a task force on redistricting says he thinks new
congressional lines can be drawn in time to meet a June primary deadline
imposed by a federal
judge, but he admits it will be weeks before the public can view them.
State
lawmakers, who have already drawn legislative district lines that
Governor Cuomo says are “unacceptable” because of partisan
gerrymandering, have yet to release
maps for proposed new congressional lines. A federal judge has ruled
that primaries for congressional seats must be on June 26th. Assembly
task force chair Jack McEneny says he thinks the proposed maps can be
finished by late February and voted on by early
March.
While
the date for the federal election primaries has been settled by a
judge, the date for state legislative primaries is still up in the air.
Assembly Democrats
want all of the primaries on the same day in late June; Republicans had
favored an August date. No agreement has been worked out yet.
