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Illinois Congressman Rodney Davis joined his Republican colleagues in the General Assembly Monday in calling on Gov. JB Pritzker to support legislation to form an independent commission to redraw congressional and state legislative district maps.
“In the end, I think the public is demanding an open transparent process,” Davis, of Taylorville, said during a Statehouse news conference. “And many of our colleagues, including Gov. Pritzker, have said in their own words, that they would like an open and transparent process, one that s going to stop politicians from picking their own voters.”
Both the U.S. and Illinois constitutions require that district maps be redrawn every 10 years using the latest census data to ensure equal representation. The Illinois Constitution requires it to be done in the year following the decennial census.
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Republicans and Democrats are at odds over a sweeping election bill that seeks to reform voting, campaign finance, and ethics laws.
The so-called For the People Act cleared the U.S. House last month with just one Democrat siding with unanimous GOP opposition.
Republican U.S. Rep. Rodney Davis said while Democrats claim the bill prevents voter suppression, that doesn t tell the whole story.
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Davis called the measure a Democratic power grab that reaches far beyond voting rights.
“This is not a For the People Act, as it s titled. This is not a voting rights bill. This is a For the Politicians Act, Davis said. This is the furthest thing from a voting rights bill that we can get to because, really, what this bill does that doesn t get a lot of reports about it is that it gives every single member of Congress the ability to get $7.2 million put into their own campaign accounts.”