NY redistricting panel to vote on new congressional map

[brooklynite]

Source: Auburn Citizen

A state panel will vote Thursday on a proposal to redraw New York's 26 congressional districts.

The New York State Independent Redistricting Commission is scheduled to meet at 2 p.m. in Albany. According to the meeting agenda, the commission will hold two votes: One on the final congressional map proposal and another to send it to the state Legislature.

Seven votes are needed to approve a redistricting plan. The commission has 10 members — four Democrats, four Republicans and two who aren't enrolled with the major parties.

The proposed map has not been released ahead of the meeting, which will be held two months after the state Court of Appeals, New York's highest court, ordered the commission to submit new maps to the state Legislature by the end of February.

Read more: https://auburnpub.com/news/local/government-politics/ny-congressional-district-map/article_29d9d320-caf3-11ee-8684-7374935157f9.html

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Meeting will be live-streamed.

[getagrip_already]

1. How is this even functional?

If the 4 Republicans vote as a block, no maps can move forward.

What happens then? Do the existing maps stand or do the courts get involved?

[brooklynite]

2. My sources tell me the Republicans may go along with the IRC proposed map...

...the risk of not doing so is that the decision would fall back to the Democratic-controlled legislature, which would devise a MORE Democratic (but not gerrymandered) map that would survive a Court review.