Gov. Larry Hogan Encourages Marylanders To Comment On Draft Legislative & Congressional Maps

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (WJZ) — Gov. Larry Hogan is encouraging Marylanders to remark connected the draught legislative and legislature maps, officials said Wednesday.

The maps are published by the Maryland Citizens Redistricting Commission. The autarkic committee is the archetypal of its benignant successful authorities history. It is challenged with drafting just legislative and legislature maps for the 2022 elections.

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Officials said members are divided arsenic betwixt republicans, democrats and those unaffiliated. None of the members are elected officials oregon candidates for office. Gov. Hogan besides has nary involvement.

“As a premix of Democrats, Republicans, and Independents, our members person embraced our complaint to make caller territory boundaries that are escaped from governmental power and connection the accidental for escaped and just elections successful Maryland,” the Commission stated successful a caller update to the governor. “We are continuing to prosecute the assemblage and impulse their information successful this precise open, public, and transparent process. We volition finalize our commission’s representation plans and contiguous them to you for your consideration. You tin expect these last representation recommendations by aboriginal November.”

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The committee is successful its 3rd circular of nationalist meetings. To date, they person held 32 nationalist meetings and person received much than 80 representation submissions from the public.

“This is what existent nonpartisan redistricting looks like, fairness, transparency, and accountability,” said Governor Hogan. “While the Citizens Commission has already published draught maps and held dozens of nationalist meetings, the legislature’s backroom partisan process is tally by vocation politicians, has released nary draught maps, and has nary representation portal for national input. I promote each Marylanders to instrumentality portion successful the process and remark connected the autarkic Commission’s maps. We privation to marque definite that this clip the radical of Maryland are really drafting these maps—not the politicians oregon the enactment bosses.”

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CBS Baltimore Staff