Washington's redistricting failure: What went wrong and what happens now?
Days after the failure of Washington’s redistricting commission to reach a deal by its constitutional deadline, fallout continues over what went wrong — and what happens now that legislative and congressional maps for the next decade are in the hands of the state Supreme Court.
At a news conference Thursday, the two Democratic and two Republican commissioners presented a largely unified front, expressing regret for the secrecy surrounding their deceptive vote on what they’d claimed was a final agreement on maps, while defending the maps that were belatedly released.
But they failed to clear up key questions, including what exactly they were voting on in the final minutes before the Nov. 15 deadline, with one commissioner acknowledging he didn’t even see the legislative map before it was belatedly sent to the state Supreme Court.
The commission’s explanations so far have not satisfied the state Supreme Court, which Thursday evening ordered the panel to produce by noon Monday “a detailed timeline” of the events of Nov. 15, when the commission was racing to meet its 11:59 p.m. deadline.
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