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IL: Sorting out the process
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Monday, 12 April 2010 08:26

From Illinois State House News via Fox 55:

The state is scheduled to redraw its legislative districts in 2011. The process – known as redistricting – occurs every ten years and relies on data collected through the federal census the year before.

But the current redistricting procedure has been encumbered by drawn-out partisan battles, legal challenges, and arbitrary draws from a hat.

This session, Democratic and Republican lawmakers have introduced five proposed Constitutional Amendments that would change the redistricting process.

Proposals from both parties share a number of planned changes, such as the de-coupling of Senate and House districts and the establishment of public hearings on redistricting.

But lawmakers are locked in a partisan conflict over who ultimately decides how the state’s legislative map is drawn.

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GA: 2010 Census: What’s at stake
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Thursday, 8 April 2010 08:27

From the Macon County New:

The 2010 Census count is important for another reason: politics. After the 2010 Census data is collected, Washington will send the data back to the states, who will then use the information to redraw political lines — and determine how you get represented.

At the federal level, Census data will be used for reapportionment: deciding which states gain, and which states lose, Congressional seats and Electoral College votes for president.

Right now, Southern states are projected to pick up six Congressional seats: three in Texas, and one each in Florida, Georgia and South Carolina.

That’s the biggest gain of any region in the country: Western states are likely to pick up four Congressional seats. The Northeast is projected to lose four, and the Midwest five — part of a decades-long shift of political power to the South and West.

At the state level, the 2010 Census count will be used for redistricting: the drawing of new political lines that determine how you will be represented.

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Last Updated on Thursday, 8 April 2010 08:27
State House Races: Where All The Marbles Are
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Monday, 5 April 2010 09:29

Via Wall Street Journal:

The Republican party’s main campaign group focusing on statehouses, the Republican State Leadership Committee, is aiming to raise $40 million this year, an effort led by Edward Gillespie, the former party chairman and adviser to President George W. Bush. The Democrats’ main group has announced a $20 million campaign. Together, those groups and the governors’ associations are planning to spend more than $170 million on the elections this year. That is about 70 percent more than they spent in 2006, the last time a similarly large number of governors’ races were on the ballot.

Separately, labor unions say they will devote an increasing amount of resources to state-level races, partly because governors are making hard layoff decisions that concern unionized state workers. But redistricting is another reason for labor’s focus on the states.

“That’s where all the marbles are,” said Larry Scanlon, the political director for the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees. The union has donated $2.3 million to the Democratic Governors Association, becoming the largest contributor to the group in the current election cycle.

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Last Updated on Monday, 5 April 2010 09:29
Redistricting Getting More and More Attention in the States
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Monday, 5 April 2010 09:17

From Kathy Kiely at USA Today:

Democrats and Republicans are planning to pour at least $20 million each into November’s state legislative races that could determine which party controls about two dozen state legislative chambers. And in a case that could go to the Supreme Court, the Republican National Committee is arguing it should be able to add to the pot.

The reason for all the activity: In all but six states, legislatures have a hand in redrawing congressional boundaries after each Census — supposedly to account for population shifts, but usually with a political eye.

That’s why both parties are investing in races for state House and Senate.

“If you focus some resources you can have an impact on congressional elections for a decade,” says Ed Gillespie, a former national Republican Party chairman and co-chair of the party’s effort to win state legislatures.

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TX: Ground Zero For Congressional Redistricting?
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Monday, 29 March 2010 08:30

From the Fort Worth Star Telegram

For now, it’s being waged quietly below the surface as party operatives, consultants, computer wonks and legislative analysts pore over emerging census data and preliminary maps charting population changes.

But in the coming months, the battle over congressional and legislative reapportionment will explode into full view as Republicans and Democrats plunge into a power struggle played out at least once every decade — transforming population changes into control of the statehouse and Texas’ delegation in the U.S. House of Representatives.

With its population expected to grow to more than 25 million, the Lone Star State appears on track to pick up at least three, and possibly four, new seats in the House of Representatives, the largest gain of any state.

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Last Updated on Monday, 29 March 2010 08:30
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