Cribbing from the Civic Forum PAC:

Hat tip to Swing State Project for catching the recent goings-on in regard to redistricting in Florida and Illinois.

Here’s the status of redistricting measures currently at issue in Florida, via the Washington Independent’s Jimm Phillips:

The Florida legislature approved a state constitutional amendment yesterday that, like two citizen-sponsored amendments also on the November ballot, aims to change the state’s redistricting rules…

The two citizen-sponsored amendments — one covers state legislative redistricting, the other U.S. congressional — would prevent the legislature from drawing maps that favor incumbents or candidates from a particular political party, and would require districts be compact and contiguous and to follow existing geographic and political boundaries as much as possible. A citizen-sponsored amendment must get enough signatures to equal eight percent of the number of voters in the last presidential election – 676,811 for 2010 – in order to qualify for the ballot.

Read the rest of the post here.