GEOG 142 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Article One Of The United States Constitution, List Of Arizona Ballot Propositions, Arizona State Legislature
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After decades of gerrymandering in which the legislature drew lines that favored the party in power or willfully protected incumbents on both sides, ca is now experiencing state assembly elections due to a bipartisan citizens redistricting commission. The ca bipartisan citizens redistricting commission is a 14-member commission made up of five republicans, five democrats, and 4 not affiliated with either of those two parties but registered with another party or as decline-to-state. The commission must draw the district lines in conformity with strict, nonpartisan rules designed to create districts of relatively equal population that will provide fair representation for all. Created by a statewide ballot initiative to govern state electoral boundaries and to cover congressional seats after years of gerrymandering by ca congressional. Representatives, like rep. philip burton; he was a democratic power broker who engineered a congressional district for his brother, john.
