"The results are in and the first draft maps released by the Citizens Redistricting Commission on June 10 have bombed. Over the past two weeks, Commission members have had to sit through hours of testimony on the maps while more than 1,000 of their fellow citizens told them what a lousy job they did.
The first maps achieved remarkable results. First, they managed to violate the Federal Voting Rights Act by actually reducing the number of majority-minority districts in a state where Latinos accounted for 90 percent of net growth over the past decade. The Commission now realizes this; they threw out their staff's entire congressional work product for Los Angeles County and the commissioners themselves are now redrawing the districts."
California Redistricting Commission's First Draft Maps: Doing worse than the Legislature did
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