Advocates: As long as redistricting is in the legislature’s hands, partisan squabbling will be the result

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It highlighted the conflict that can arise when politicians are in charge of drawing their own voting maps. Citizen group steps inRedistricting advocates and experts said until Virginia takes the power of redrawing voting maps away from the legislature, legal and political battle will be inevitable. They have incentive to unpack their voters.”Li pointed to Maryland and Illinois as examples of Democratic gerrymandering. In addition to Virginia, there have been racial gerrymandering cases in Texas, North Carolina and Alabama, Georgia and Louisiana. According to a Virginia Commonwealth University Wilder school poll, only 16 percent of Virginians wanted the General Assembly in charge of redistricting.