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Talks over new election district lines in New York State are expected to continue this week. Democrats and Republicans have been arguing about the new lines ever since they were redrawn several weeks ago.
The once a decade process that redraws political boundaries for state Assembly, Senate and Congressional districts has faced problems since Republicans and Democrats submitted differing maps for House lines.
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Senate Republicans and Assembly Democrats this week are huddling in private week to finalize a reshaping of New York’s political map. It’s part of the once-in-a-decade redistricting process for Congressional, Assembly and Senate lines. While state districts are nearly completed, where House districts will go, and which two will be eliminated, is still be worked out.
Albany Assemblyman Jack McEneny said, “I’m optimistic. I think there’s a will. I think people understand the added the pressure this year, the artificial deadline that was thrust upon it and I think there’s a good spirit of cooperation and I hope we can come to terms.
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Lawmakers are trying to do what might be considered an easy task. Take new census numbers and begin to draw up new boundaries for state legislative and congressional districts.
But since the lines are drawn by members of political parties who would like to see their parties hold on to control of their respective chambers, they tend not to draw lines that make practical sense to those in those neighborhoods across New York.
The system has always been a political. A democrat in the Assembly would like to see areas more democratic voters in their district. On the Senate side, the search for republican strongholds is paramount. The result? Districts that often take on strange shapes as each party desperately reaches for an advantage.
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As the lawmaker-driven redistricting process comes under fire here in New York, a U.S. Supreme Court ruling reaffirmed the power of state lawmakers in Texas to draw their own lines, tossing out boundaries created by a lower court.
Assemblyman Jack McEneny is the Democratic co-chairman of the commission leading the redistricting effort.
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NEW YORK STATE — The stakes are huge in the case known as Little v. LATFOR. Senate Republicans were in court Tuesday challenging the 2010 law that requires prisoners to be counted as residents of their last known address. The measure has the potential to reshape how upstate districts are formed and could permanently shift the balance of power to the downstate region.
“It’s interesting that this piece of particular legislation passed solely with Democratic support. Only Democrats voted for it,” said Senate GOP Attorney David Lewis.
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NEW YORK STATE — Former mayor Ed Koch once again challenged the state’s redistricting process Wednesday, blasting a task force, known as LATFOR, currently charged with redrawing legislative lines.
Koch got a majority of lawmakers to promise before the 2010 election to create an independent commission to draw districts instead of the lawmakers themselves.
Koch got a majority of lawmakers to promise before the 2010 election to create an independent commission to draw districts instead of the lawmakers themselves.
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BINGHAMTON, N.Y. — New York’s population has changed and that means it is time for the legislative lines to be re-drawn. It is a process that happens every ten years by law.
The state’s Legislative Task Force on Demographic Research and Reapportionment is responsible for making those changes and the group held a public hearing in Binghamton Wednesday.
Some of the concerns include the possible misrepresentation of districts. The task force says it will take these concerns into consideration before making a decision.
NEW YORK STATE — As state lawmakers slog through the contentious process of redrawing their own legislative boundaries, they now plan to follow a 2010 law requiring inmates be counted as residents of their last known address, not the prison they live in. The move could have broad implications for the size and scope of state and federal districts in prison heavy upstate.
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The group formed by the state legislature to oversee the redistricting process has launched a series of public hearings across the state. LATFOR, as it’s known, will present a plan to the full legislature to redraw boundary lines to reflect changes in state population, shown in new census figures. YNN’s Bill Carey was on hand for the first of those sessions, in Syracuse.
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