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March 12, 2021
INDIANAPOLIS - Troubled by the lack of redistricting reform at the Statehouse, voting-rights advocates in Indiana are taking matters into their own hands.
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Julia Vaughn, policy director at Common Cause Indiana, contended a broad swath of the state is unrepresented due to unfairly drawn legislative districts, noting that Republicans have held trifecta control of state government since 2011.
So, she helped create the Indiana Citizens Redistricting Commission, made up of three Republicans, three Democrats and three voters with neither political affiliation, ranging in age from 19 to 86. Vaughn said the commission is listening to voters concerns about current district maps.
SOUTHERN INDIANA — The fourth of 10 public meetings across Indiana designed to gather input for 2021 s Congressional redistricting will focus on District 9 in Southern Indiana and will be
Join the discussion about redistricting at public hearings
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Want your vote to count for the next 10 years?
Now is the time to make your voice heard! We need Fair Maps when Indiana lawmakers redistrict after the census data is returned this summer.
Register in advance at allinfordemocracy.org for a public hearing to be held by the Indiana Citizens Redistricting Commission on March 16, 7-9 p.m. (Congressional District 6).
Indiana Leagues of Women Voters have been laying groundwork for Fair Maps over the last decade, since the current maps were approved by the legislature in 2011, producing our current supermajority legislature.
Northwest Indiana residents have a chance this week to express their opinion on one of those little-noticed, structural components of government that has a significant effect on national, state, and local election and policy outcomes.
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The Indiana Citizens Redistricting Commission is holding a virtual public meeting from 2-4 p.m. Region time Saturday for people living in the 1st Congressional District of Lake, Porter and western LaPorte counties to share their thoughts about their current voting districts and what theyâd like to see in new districts.