New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu vetoes a bipartisan bill that would ward off gerrymandering.
"In the 11 state elections since 1994, Republicans have often come out with 10 to 15 percent more seats in the Senate than a neutral map would have yielded. The imbalance has been particularly stark over the past three elections,"Redistricting, or the process of drawing new electoral boundaries, happens every ten years after the Census is taken, readjusting district maps to account for population changes.
"The members of the commission proposed by House Bill 706 would be unelected and unaccountable to the voters. New Hampshire citizens put their trust in elected officials when they cast a ballot for them," Sununu wrote in a letter announcing his decision."Legislators should not abrogate their responsibility to the voters and delegate authority to an unelected and unaccountable commission selected by political party bosses.
“Both parties are willing to disarm and commit to not using the redistricting process to bake in a partisan advantage, it’s a really good time to take up that opportunity and pass the reform,” he said.
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