'An abject failure': New York's Independent Redistricting Commission, created by Cuomo to prevent gerrymandering, is deadlocked 5-5 on a pair of competing proposals
likely to reject both of the commission’s plans
There’s now a smoother path for new lines that would help increase the size of New York’s 19-member Democratic congressional delegation to 22 or potentially 23, even as the number of seats shrinks from 27 to 26.predictable, in part because a state constitutional amendment that created the commission left a path for the Legislature to vote down its lines twice and then return to their old mapmaking habits.
While it didn’t go as far as Cuomo had initially promised, the amendment did leave some safeguards against one-party gerrymandering in place. But Monday’s vote calls into question whether a commission with five members allied with Democrats and five with Republicans, most of whom are appointed by legislative leaders, can ever work as advertised.
Assuming commissioners don’t find a way to strike a deal when they draw a second set of maps later this month, there are only a couple of roadblocks preventing a mapmaking process dominated by Democrats.
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