Sentences with phrase «hand over the redistricting»

But the state also passed a ballot measure that would hand over the redistricting process to a nonpartisan commission.

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.

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.