Hogan Calls Special Session To Adopt Redrawn Maryland Legislative Maps

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ANNAPOLIS, Md. (WJZ) — Gov. Larry Hogan is calling a peculiar league of the Maryland General Assembly adjacent period to follow recently drawn legislative and legislature maps.

Hogan’s bureau connected Friday announced the politician has signed disconnected connected certified maps presented by the Maryland Citizens Redistricting Commission. The nine-member sheet was formed successful January with the extremity of eliminating gerrymandered districts and drafting caller legislative and legislature maps for adjacent year’s elections.

In a statement, Hogan called the juncture a “great time for the State of Maryland and for democracy.”

“On behalf of each the radical of Maryland, I privation to explicit our appreciation to the members of the Maryland Citizens Redistricting Commission for their work to our state,” helium said. “I privation to convey them for conducting their concern with integrity successful a wholly unfastened and transparent manner, and astir particularly for their unthinkable efforts to yet reconstruct fairness and competitiveness to Maryland elections.”

The caller maps (which tin beryllium viewed here) person been sent to the General Assembly for its reappraisal earlier the peculiar legislative session, which is acceptable to statesman connected Dec. 6.

Hogan has been an outspoken professional of the legislature and legislative maps, which person fixed Maryland a estimation for being 1 of the astir gerrymandered states nationwide. His medication has unsuccessfully floated a measure to betterment the state’s redistricting process, and successful 2018 Hogan was portion of an amicus little filed with the Supreme Court implicit the state’s 6th legislature district.

Gerrymandering is simply a process by which politicians person been known to manipulate legislative maps to payment a governmental party.

To code the issue, 3 Republicans, 3 Democrats and 3 Independents were named to a nine-person committee to reappraisal the legislative and legislature maps. The sheet gathered input from dozens of nationalist meetings and considered 86 submissions earlier coming up with the recently drawn maps.

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It’s unclear whether the General Assembly volition instrumentality enactment connected the redistricting maps. A bulk ballot successful some chambers would beryllium required to o.k. the caller districts.