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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A longstanding criticism of gerrymandering — manipulating electoral boundaries to favor one political party or class — is that it has been used to compact and dilute the representation of Black voters.

Some members of the Virginia Legislative Black Caucus maintain the proposed commission would not do enough to eliminate racial gerrymandering. There's no language to ensure the commission is racially and culturally diverse. It could be all white legislators and all white citizens. It could be set up so that it’s very unfair. Ideally, for the idea to really work, it should be an independent redistricting commission with no legislators, only citizens. But, there will be eight legislators on this commission. Legislators have a much more invested interest than any citizen. And they will do everything they can, to get districts drawn the way they think would advance their interests.

Lastly, the problem with the amendment is, once it’s in the constitution, it’s very hard to remove from the constitution. So if the commission doesn’t work as proposed, we’re stuck with it.

Vote NO on question 1.

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