Citizens Redistricting Committee

Town of Ossining Supervisor Sue Donnelly says that Ossining residents could become the victims of gerrymandering. Below is Supervisor Donnelly’s response to the proposed redistricting.

Good morning,

As many of you are aware, the next month or so will bring a redistricting of the New York State Senate. The State Assembly will be following suit in this process.

Read More: http://ossining.patch.com/articles/ossining-redistricting-controversy

Appalled by the first draft of re-drawn district maps released last Friday, Senator Velmanette Montgomery and other Democratic lawmakers will hold two public hearings this week — on Wednesday and Thursday — to protest what they say is a blatant and desperate attempt by Republicans to establish a political advantage.

Read More: http://prospectheights.patch.com/articles/sen-montgomery-stop-the-gerrymandering

The proposed redrawn State Senate and Assembly district maps are out.

But Gov. Andrew Cuomo and legislators in Albany, including Assemblyman Hakeem Jeffries, D-Fort Greene, think the legislative task force that drew up and released the new maps yesterday is headed in the wrong direction.

Read More: http://fortgreene.patch.com/articles/jeffries-new-state-legislative-maps-headed-in-wrong-direction-f2265b7e

The march toward redistricting in New York state is in full force now, with Democrats and Republicans in Albany fighting over a series of plans to draw new lines for the 2012 elections.

According to Assemblyman Andrew Hevesi, Forest Hills has been one of the big battlegrounds in that war of words so far.

Read More: http://foresthills.patch.com/articles/hevesi-forest-hills-is-gerrymandering-poster-child

A State Supreme Court judge late last week upheld legislation that ends prison-based gerrymandering in the state of New York, ensuring incarcerated populations are counted as residents of their home communities.

Assemblyman Hakeem Jeffries, (57^th A.D.), and New York Attorney General Senator Eric T. Schneiderman introduced the bill in February 2010, when Schneiderman was a state senator. The bill passed in August of that year, making New York only the second state in the country to count incarcerated individuals in their home communities for purposes of legislative reapportionment.

Read More: http://prospectheights.patch.com/articles/state-supreme-court-upholds-jeffries-law-ending-prison-based-gerrymandering

The newly-formed Suffolk County Reapportionment Commission convened for the first time Wednesday in Hauppauge as part of a new redistricting process set forth by the Legislature.

Established to submit redistricting recommendations to the Legislature for approval by Feb. 1 of next year, the board is to take into account changes to the population according to the 2010 Census.

Read More: http://kingspark.patch.com/articles/redistricting-commission-meets-for-first-time

A shifting population and redistricting has forced State senator, Kenneth LaValle, R-Port Jefferson to seek new digs. The senator who had been in an office in Selden for almost 20 years will be moving to a new location at 28 North Country Road in Mount Sinai occupying Suite 203.

Every ten years the boundaries of the New York State senatorial districts are redrawn based on population changes reflected in the Federal census, a move that is mandated by the U.S. Constitution. The 2010 census has caused LaValle’s district to migrate eastward.

Read More: http://portjefferson.patch.com/articles/redistricting-means-move-to-mount-sinai-for-lavalle

A New York State Supreme Court judge has declared that the redistricted map set forth by Nassau Republicans cannot be used this election year because it does not comply with two parts of the county charter.

Justice Steve Jaeger said that there is a three-step process to adopting a new map for elections, the first of which is through the legislature within six months receipt of census data.

Read entire article here: http://longbeach.patch.com/articles/judge-redistricted-map-cant-be-used-in-2011