LANSING (AP) — After seven weeks of mapping, Michigan's new redistricting commission is starting to vote on much-anticipated draft congressional and legislative plans.
The maps, while not final and subject to future revisions, will give early indications of the panel's approach after voters empowered it — and not lawmakers — to draw lines to minimize partisan gerrymandering.
The commission is under a crunch because of an unprecedented four-month-plus delay in census data needed for the once-a-decade redistricting process.
Once multiple drafts of congressional and legislative maps are approved in coming days — one state Senate version was passed Friday — the public will be able to give feedback at five hearings.
That is down from nine after the panel set aside more time to work on the initial versions.
In early November, the commission of four Democrats, four Republicans and five members who affiliate with neither major party plans to vote on proposed maps and — following a 45-day comment period — adopt final maps by year's end, about two months after the constitutional deadline.
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