Marshfield Hosting Fair Maps for Wisconsin Summit in November
Friday, October 11th, 2019 -- 9:39 AM
(Marshfield News Herald) -A group of passionate Wisconsinites are hoping to take on partisan gerrymandering next month.The Fair Maps for Wisconsin Summit will be held Nov. 9 in Marshfield and aims to teach Wisconsin residents how partisan gerrymandering, or re-drawing of political districts by politicians to give their party a partisan advantage, affects them and the resources available to them. The summit is sponsored by several nonprofit and grassroots organizations, including the Fair Elections Project, the League of Women Voters of Wisconsin and The Madison Institute. The summit was announced at a Thursday morning press conference in front of Marshfield City Hall, just blocks from Hotel Marshfield, where the day-long summit will be held.
The group chose Marshfield for the conference because of its central location but also because the city fell victim to partisan redistricting in 2013, said former state Assembly representative Amy Sue Vruwink during the press conference. To date, 48 of Wisconsin's 72 counties have passed some kind of resolution geared toward eliminating gerrymandering, according to the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign. The resolutions called for some type of nonpartisan system to keep the process of drawing boundaries fair.
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