Sentences with phrase «redraw election district»

(AP) The lengthy process to redraw election district lines in New York that will guide politics for the next decade is expected to get longer.

And, once every 10 years, redraw election district boundaries for the U.S. House of Representatives and the state Senate and Assembly.

Recently, he was involved in a lawsuit that forced Albany County to redraw its election districts to be fair to minority residents.

Not exact matches

Although court rulings have since forced the redrawing of some districts, many of those boundaries remain in place for the 2018 elections.

Fortune will go on a limb to predict he will cast the deciding vote in a 5 - 4 ruling in Gill v. Whitford that will declare the redrawing of election districts for political purposes to be unconstitutional.

Also, the Republican reign in North Carolina will likely be coming to an end soon as they've been ordered to redraw district lines and hold a special election next year.

Queens Democratic leader Joe Crowley, who will pick the party's nominee for the Sept. 13 special election, is anxious to carve up Weiner's former territory when state lawmakers redraw district lines in 2012 to reduce New York's congressional delegation by two.

Hinchey's mid-Hudson Valley district is likely to be carved up by the state legislators in charge of redrawing legislative lines for this year's elections.

In a few months that district will be reapportioned by the New York City Districting Commission which is tasked with redrawing all 51 city council districts based on the 2010 census to reflect population shifts in time for the 2013 City Council elections.

Republicans have been eager to flip the district over the last several election cycles, spending heavily to flip the seat and redrawing it to more favorable conditions in 2012.

Leaders of the New York League of Women Voters have seen proposals for redrawing the district maps for the New York State Legislature in this fall's elections and they don't like them.

The jurisdictions identified by the Section 4 formula were required to seek federal approval — or pre-clearance — when seeking to make changes to practices or policies affecting voters, such as redrawing district lines or changing polling sites during an election.

State lawmakers charged with redrawing state legislative and congressional districts before the 2012 elections say there's little time left to approve a new way to redistrict and meet next year's early primary.

He didn't mention two of the most controversial issues facing the Legislature: Independent redrawing of election districts that could threaten the Republicans» slim majority in the Senate, and the regulation of «hydrofracking» for natural gas upstate that concerns the Assembly Democrats and environmental groups.

A three - judge panel of a federal court ordered the North Carolina legislature to redraw their district lines and hold a new election next year.

The court rulings to protect voting rights have incensed state legislators, who harshly criticized the federal courts and dragged their feet in redrawing gerrymandered election districts.