A court battle has begun in Nevada over a proposal to amend the state constitution and reshape the way voting districts are drawn following the U.S. Census.
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Advocates for creating a non-partisan commission to redraw Nevada voting districts instead of the Legislature are offering to amend a proposed statewide ballot initiative to appease a North Las Vegas pastor who has sued to block it.
The president of the Nevada League of Women Voters says the Fair Maps Nevada political action committee wants to get past the legal challenge and start getting its anti-gerrymandering argument out to Nevada's voters.
A hearing is scheduled Monday in state court in Carson City on a request for an injunction to prevent signature-gathering. The lawsuit says the proposed initiative is fatally flawed.
The head of the League of Women Voters of Nevada said Tuesday she’s confident a ballot measure the organization wants to qualify for a statewide vote next November will withstand a lawsuit challenging it as inaccurate and misleading.
League President Sondra Cosgrove says backers expected political parties would try to change or effectively kill the idea of naming seven people to a non-partisan commission to redraw Nevada’s voting maps.
The lawsuit filed Nov. 26 in Carson City says the idea won’t work because there’s no funding for it and commission members would still be partisan because they’d be appointed through the Legislature.
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