The proposed fix, hammered out in 2012 by Gov. Andrew Cuomo and legislative leaders, would
hand over redistricting to a 10 - member panel: eight members selected by the four legislative conference leaders and two selected by the initial members.
But the state also passed a ballot measure that would
hand over the redistricting process to a nonpartisan commission.
Not exact matches
The DSCC has been fundraising very aggressively in preparation for the epic battle it will be waging this fall against the outgunned (in cash terms, anyway) SRCC for control of the chamber — a crucial fight, since whoever has power
over the next round of
redistricting will have he upper
hand for at least the next decade.
Such a huge loss by the Republican presidential nominee would pit two oft - voiced truisms against one another: that the House majority is securely in GOP
hands because of the tilted
redistricting process in 2011, and that the era of voters splitting presidential tickets is
over.
Three of the four legislative leaders have signed former NYC Mayor Ed Koch's pledge to reform the
redistricting process by
handing over control to a nonpartisan commission.
Cuomo has proposed to
hand redistricting over to an independent commission in time for next year's redrawing of lines (it happens every ten years); he's also promised to veto any
redistricting legislation that does not provide for an independent process.