Michigan's draft redistricting maps approved, will be taken to the public next
Editor's note:This story has been corrected to note that the commission’s draft state Senate districts would still put Michigan’s Upper Peninsula in two separate districts.
Michigan's independent redistricting commission voted Monday to take 10 newly drawn political maps to the public in a series of hearings starting next week, believing they represent the best possible balance between equal representation, community interests, civil rights and partisan fairness.
The commission approved four congressional maps, three for the state Senate and three for the state House. Additional maps are expected to be proposed by individual commissioners as the group moves toward finalizing a map for each set of state offices.
Few are likely to be overjoyed with the maps the commission approved, however.
For months, the 13 randomly selected commissioners, all novices at mapping, have been wrestling with untangling the gerrymandered boundaries put in place by a Republican state legislature and governor a decade ago, when new lines were drawn after the last Census.
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