Rich withdraws Democratic Party-drawn redistricting maps
TALLAHASSEE -- Groups that backed the Fair Districts anti-gerrymandering reforms passed last year -- the League of Women Voters, Democracia, Common Cause and the Florida Democratic Party -- have crafted new congressional and state Senate maps.
And surprise: they would create more competitive playing fields for the minority party than the versions the Senate Reapportonment Committee is taking up and likely to pass this afternoon.
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But on Wendesday, Rich said it appeared the maps don't comply with the law has well as she wanted, and she withdrew them.
At least one fellow Democrat on the committee, Sen. Larcenia Bullard, D-Miami, critcized the maps her leader had filed because she said they would diminish minority voting strength in a half-dozen seats.
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