TWO MAPS SUBMITTED: The New York Redistricting Commission Fails And Ends In Disagreement

CITY AND STATE: In a win for gerrymandering, New York redistricting commission submits two sets of partisan maps

TOP LINE: The state’s Independent Redistricting Commission failed to agree on one proposal to send to the Legislature

Surprising no one, the New York Independent Redistricting Commission ended its inaugural process without completing its goal of creating a bipartisan set of legislative maps in an attempt to end gerrymandering.

The Democrats and Republicans on the commission each submitted their own maps – again – and with the commission evenly split between the two parties, they could not come to a consensus on a single set.

So they sent both sets of lines to lawmakers, leaving it up to the state Legislature to decide which they prefer, or to redraw the maps completely.

All in all, the differences between the two partisan sets of congressional lines are fairly minimal, especially compared to the vast differences between the draft proposals released in September.

In broad strokes, the proposed district lines in the two plans – “A” for Democrats and “B” for Republicans – largely share the similar shapes and locations.... 

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