Group files suit on redistricting ballot measure
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HeraldTribune.com: A battle over how Florida lawmakers will decide the next round of redistricting is now headed to court. A coalition of groups and people who want to change the once-in-a-decade task of drawing new districts for Congress and the Legislature say that legislators are trying to mislead voters into keeping everything the way it is. They filed a lawsuit in Tallahassee on Friday that asks a circuit court judge to knock off the ballot a proposed constitutional amendment that the GOP-controlled Legislature approved the last day of the session. The legal challenge against this redistricting measure will likely go all the way to the state Supreme Court before it is resolved. "This is a trick amendment and it is a blatant effort to fool voters," said Deirdre Macnab, president of the League of Women Voters of Florida. Rep. Dean Cannon, R-Winter Park and one of main backers of the amendment, countered that it was FairDistrictsFlorida.org that was pushing "claims and promises" that they "could not deliver." Florida lawmakers must draw new districts for both Congress and the Legislature every 10 years following the U.S. census. While some states have a long list of standards, Florida has relatively few to follow. The next round of redistricting will take place in early 2012.
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