Voting on redistricting opens April 11 in Mason District
Early voting on Virginia’s proposed constitutional amendment on redistricting opens tomorrow at satellite locations, including the Mason Government Center and Thomas Jefferson Library.
A special election on redistricting will be held on April 21.
Voting at the satellite sites is available April 11-18. The polls are open Monday-Friday, 1-7 p.m. and Saturdays 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Parking is limited at the Mason Government Center due to construction.
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The ballot question states: “Should the Constitution of Virginia be amended to allow the General Assembly to temporarily adopt new congressional districts to restore fairness in the upcoming elections, while ensuring Virginia’s standard redistricting process resumes for all future redistricting after the 2030 census?”
A map of new congressional districts was drawn by Virginia Democrats in the General Assembly in response to efforts by MAGA-controlled legislatures in other states – including Texas, Ohio, Missouri, North Carolina, and Florida – to give Republicans the edge in the upcoming midterms. Unlike Virginia, those states aren’t giving voters a voice in redistricting.
Millions of dollars in dark money have poured into Virginia by redistricting opponents who have flooded voters’ mailboxes with deceptive messages.
Virginia Attorney General Jay Jones condemned mailers sent to Black voters that he says “misuse imagery from the civil rights movement and even invoke Jim Crow while falsely suggesting the measure threatens Black representation.”
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“That history is not a political prop, and it should never be exploited in a misleading attempt to confuse voters,” Jones said.
“These efforts show exactly why voting rights protections remain essential,” said Paul Davis, chair of the Fairfax County Democratic Committee’s Black Caucus. “When Republicans don’t have a case to make, they fall back on the same tactics of confusion and suppression we’ve seen time and again.”
According to Democracy Docket, a political action committee linked to tech billionaire Peter Thiel has contributed $2.5 million for deceptive mailers using Ku Klux Klan images comparing redistricting to Jim Crow-era voting restrictions.
A poll conducted by the Washington Post and George Mason University’s Schar School of Policy and Government shows 52 percent of voters support the redistricting amendment but suggests the outcome could go either way.
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Actually, the whole story is one-sided and biased. I expect more from Annandale Today.
Literally how?
One-sided because it only reports facts and ignores obvious lies from Republicans?
I think Annadale Today is pretty unabashedly left leaning, right wrong or otherwise
Yes!
Excited to vote in this!
I received several of the mailers sent to black voters — and I’m not black!
The Republicans started this in Texas because of the declining satisfaction with the current Administration, and concern about losing their majorities in Congress. Now they are now crying foul for Virginia doing the same thing to counter them.
Here’s an idea, Republicans. How about adjusting your policies to be something the majority of voters are in favor of.
Gerrymandering is wrong, no matter which state or political party is doing it.
I am a democrat and Gerrymandering is wrong!!! I don’t care is Texas and other republican states are doing it. We are not them. We are Virginia, and every resident in the state should feel and identify confortable with their district. It’s not right to quiet 500,000 southwest, westernerVirginians just because Fairfax sees it one way. Wrong for the state and wrong in history for the other states . Also don’t give me with temporary BS. Vote no
I am a democrat and i don’t support Gerrymandering efforts anywhere. Its corrupt!
If this passes, There is no way anyone can agree that 10 democrats and 1 republican is a true representation of the people within our commonwealth.