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Clerks Handle Redistricting Headaches
Thursday, January 12th, 2012 -- 11:25 am
Posted by Riley Hebert-News Director
Clerks around the state are struggling to rectify problems caused by the legislature’s redistricting process.
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel says the once-a-decade redrawing of legislative maps has left some voters in incorrect locations.
The article says the problems impact thousands and arise from a combination of factors, including inaccuracies in U.S. Census Bureau data and problems with a new way of assigning voters to districts in a state database. In past decades, lawmakers waited for local officials to draw their lines and then built legislative maps along those ward lines. But this time, Republicans who control the Legislature drew the state maps first, using U.S. census blocks.
The Government Accountability Board is not commenting publicly about the situation because of on-going lawsuits over the redistricting maps.
Clark County Clerk Christina Jensen says they’ve been fixing some addresses here, but it’s not as big a problem as in other, more populous counties.
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