And if you look at that amendment that was passed, it explains it in detail.” But they are guided by pretty strict constitutional criteria. “We’ve seen some partisan interests try to ramp up their pressure very recently to try to influence this process. “It is too early to kind of get worried about this,” he says. He says many of the maps drawn so far have caused a fuss because some of them would break up communities that have been drawn together in the past, some would seemingly violate requirements under the state constitution or federal law, and some maps simply don’t seem to represent the political preferences of certain areas or the state as a whole.īut Solis says a lot will change before the commission makes its final proposed maps. Listen: What we’re learning so far from the new redistricting process in Michigan.īen Solis is a reporter with Gongwer Michigan who has been closely covering the redistricting process. And some of those maps are raising some eyebrows. We’re learning a lot about this new process, and we’re getting a glimpse at what our new maps might look like. House map is interesting, because it’s pretty radical in the fact that both Democrats and Republicans agree on one thing - that it’s an awful map that probably won’t survive.” –Ben Solis, Gongwer Michigan Three years after Michigan voters approved a state constitutional amendment to overhaul the process of creating political maps, the brand-new Michigan Independent Citizens Redistricting Commission is now well into the process of redrawing congressional and state legislative district lines.
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