Evansville audience warns legislators against the effects of gerrymandering
As a group of Indiana legislators began a second day of public hearings Saturday on the upcoming redistricting process, they heard testimony from an Evansville audience that sounded a lot like the testimony that they had heard in other Indiana cities on Friday. One speaker after “...”
At Fort Wayne redistricting hearing, audience warns against a replay of 2011
More than 30 northeast Indiana residents offered their thoughts on redistricting Aug. 7 before a panel of state legislators in Fort Wayne. The general message for lawmakers: You can draw better districts than you did in 2011. Karen Nesius Roeger told the joint hearing of the Indi “...”
The redistricting hearing was in Porter County — but public testimony focused on Lake
When Indiana’s legislative leaders were choosing sites for their nine public hearings on redistricting, they opted against Lake County, scheduling a Friday afternoon hearing instead in adjacent if less populous Porter County. But since the hearing didn’t go to Lake Co “...”
Democrat tells Columbus audience that redistricting hearing offers “the illusion of transparency”
The Indiana state legislators who will spearhead the state’s upcoming redistricting process were front and center at a hearing in Columbus on Friday — but it was an 87-year-old former mayor of nearby Bloomington who drew some of the biggest applause. Tomilea Allison ( “...”
Lawmakers come to Lafayette to listen, voters ask if rigged redistricting is in the cards, anyway
Lafayette, Ind. — If there was much trust in the room that the Indiana General Assembly’s Republican supermajority would resist a temptation to redraw congressional and state legislative maps to guarantee dominance for another decade, it didn’t show Friday. At Lafayette “...”
Legislative hearing in Anderson draws calls for transparency, charges of gerrymandering
Lawmakers involved in Indiana’s upcoming redistricting process faced criticism Friday from Hoosiers who demanded more public involvement. The first round of public hearings was held in four cities around the state with citizens invited to voice their concerns and thoughts o “...”
Census Bureau to release data needed for redistricting four days earlier than expected
Local-level data needed for Indiana and other states to begin their decennial redistricting process will be released on Aug. 12, four days earlier than the U..S. Census Bureau previously had projected, bureau officials announced Thursday. The “legacy” data will be del “...”
9 hearings in 3 days: Legislative leaders announce a tight schedule of redistricting hearings
The legislative leaders in charge of Indiana’s redistricting process on Thursday announced a concentrated schedule of nine public hearings, limited to three days and timed well before the public release of the proposed congressional and legislative maps on which the India “...”
On Elbridge Gerry’s 277th birthday, a rally against gerrymandering
How better to warn against the practice of gerrymandering than with the words of the man for whom it is named? A crowd of about 50 gathered in Indianapolis Saturday — the 277th birthday of Elbridge Gerry, the founding father blamed for the first instance of gerrymandering — t “...”
Plans for September redistricting session draw criticism from voting rights groups
Voting rights activists are criticizing reported plans by Indiana legislative leaders for a September session on redistricting that doesn’t allow for public hearings after the release of proposed congressional and legislative maps. The Indiana Citizen first reported Thursda “...”