Michigan Independent Citizens Redistricting Commission

It took five rounds of open voting and an additional round of ranked choice voting for the 13-member commission to gain consensus

A series of Detroit meetings kicking off today will give area residents the chance to weigh in on 12 proposals for Michigan’s state Senate districts

Six of the redistricting plans that advanced to public comment come from collaboratively drawn maps. Each of them has at least four districts that include at least a 50% Black voting age population

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A federal court decision issued last year requiring the commission to redraw some state House and Senate maps means it’s been more active

Michigan’s redistricting commission approved a new state House district plan for court review WednesdayIt’s possible the commission’s proposal doesn’t get used as the court could pick an alternative plan drawn by a court appointed expert instead

Most of the maps cleared for public comment today Wednesday didn’t meet the Voting Rights Act guidance offered by the commission's lawyers. Tweaked versions that do could still follow

The commission is redrawing the districts to comply with an order from the federal court, which found the maps violated the U.S. Constitution's Equal Protection Clause

Michigan’s redistricting commission has been redrawing the boundaries to follow the lower court order while it awaited word from the high court

Michigan Independent Citizens Redistricting Commission started out focusing on just the affected metro-Detroit districts