Time Is Running Out For Fair Voting District Maps Print
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Written by League Women Voters WI, Andrea Kaminski   
Thursday, 01 February 2018 17:05

counties-for-fair-mapsWisconsin county boards representing 64% of Wisconsin residents have formally asked the state to end gerrymandering. It’s time for the Chairs of the State Senate and Assembly elections committees to hold public hearings.


MADISON - In January, the 37th Wisconsin county passed a Fair Maps resolution! That means MORE THAN HALF of all Wisconsin county boards—representing 64% of Wisconsin residents—that have formally asked the state to end gerrymandering and adopt a nonpartisan process for drawing the state’s voting district maps.

It’s high time for the Chairs of the State Senate and Assembly elections committees to hold public hearings on two bills that would have a nonpartisan legislative agency draw district maps – so legislators won’t be able to “choose their voters” through gerrymandering!

Contact State Senator Devin LeMahieu and Assembly Representative Kathy Bernier and demand a public hearing for SB13 and AB44 before the current legislative session adjourns. Time is running out!

• State Senator Devin LeMahieu, (608) 266-2056
https://legis.wisconsin.gov/senate/09/LeMahieu/contact-devin/

• Representative Kathy Bernier, (608) 266-9172
http://legis.wisconsin.gov/assembly/68/bernier/contact/

Extra credit: Also contact your own State Senator and Assembly Representative and ask them to demand hearings for SB 13 and AB 44.  To find your own legislators, click here and enter your address above Find Your Legislators, near the little map of Wisconsin.