{"id":3935,"date":"2020-12-03T05:06:31","date_gmt":"2020-12-03T05:06:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=3935"},"modified":"2020-12-03T05:06:31","modified_gmt":"2020-12-03T05:06:31","slug":"virginia-voters-approve-redistricting-reforms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=3935","title":{"rendered":"Virginia Voters Approve Redistricting Reforms"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> &#8220;Nearly two-thirds of Virginian voters\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2020\/11\/03\/us\/elections\/results-virginia.html\" target=\"_blank\">approved<\/a>\u00a0Question 1, which establishes a bipartisan redistricting commission to redraw state and federal legislative districts after this year&#8217;s census. Previously, the governor and the Virginia General Assembly handled the once-per-decade redistricting<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>The new commission will include eight legislators and eight citizens, evenly split between Republicans and Democrats. Each new map\u2014one for the state&#8217;s congressional districts, one for the state Senate, and one for the state House of Delegates\u2014<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/ballotpedia.org\/Virginia_Question_1,_Redistricting_Commission_Amendment_(2020)\" target=\"_blank\">requires<\/a>\u00a0the approval of at least 12 commissioners, including six of the legislators and six of the citizens.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2020\/11\/05\/virginia-voters-approve-redistricting-reforms\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/reason.com\/2020\/11\/05\/virginia-voters-approve-redistricting-reforms\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Nearly two-thirds of Virginian voters approved Question 1, which establishes a bipartisan redistricting commission to redraw state and federal legislative districts after this year&#8217;s census. Previously, the governor and the Virginia General Assembly handled the once-per-decade redistricting<\/p>\n<p>The new commission will include eight legislators and eight citizens, evenly split between Republicans and Democrats. Each new map\u2014one for the state&#8217;s congressional districts, one for the state Senate, and one for the state House of Delegates\u2014requires the approval of at least 12 commissioners, including six of the legislators and six of the citizens.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1052,36,1089],"class_list":["post-3935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-redistricting","tag-reform","tag-virginia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3935"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3936,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3935\/revisions\/3936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}