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Editorial: 8 questions for the redistricting commission

Virginia’s redistricting commission comes to Southwest Virginia today — at least virtually. Today is the day set aside for an online hearing to listen to what people in Southwest Virginia think about how congressional and legislative lines should be redrawn when the census numbers come out. Coming up Aug. 3 is an in-person hearing in Richmond for “central Virginia,” and on Aug. 5 there’s one for “the valley region.” Seeing as how the commission now doesn’t include any representatives from west of Forest, this hearing may be the only way people in Southwest Virginia have any official say at all (whether that “say” gets heeded is, of course, an entirely different matter).

Editorial: Is Virginia s redistricting commission violating the law?

Virginia’s redistricting commission is not turning out the way we thought it would. The half-legislature, half-citizen, half-Democrat, half-Republican commission has already broken its first promise to the voters who approved the constitutional amendment creating it last year. Perhaps the bigger question is: Has it broken the law? The law that created the commission the amendment set in motion specified that “In making its appointments, the appointing authorities shall give consideration to the racial, ethnic, geographic, and gender diversity of the Commonwealth.” The initial appointments came short of the most obvious way to achieve diversity — by having an equal number of men and women.

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