The real gift in the 2010 election is that the Republican landslide was nationwide and resulted in Republican majorities in legislatures all over the country. Why was this so important? It’s map-drawing time.
Indiana added about 400,000 new residents during the past decade, giving the state enough population growth to safeguard its nine U.S. House seats and avoid a repeat of the one-seat loss it saw after the 2000 census.
Unlike a decade ago, when the 2000 census cost Indiana one of its U.S. House seats, the state is expected to hold on to all nine of its congressional districts Tuesday when the U.S. Census Bureau releases new national population data, state lawmakers said.
The key factor determining the change in a county’s representation in the Legislature is the change in its share of the state’s population.
Scarce resources promise to vex lawmakers charged with writing a new budget when the Legislature convenes in January.
Indiana politicians have never shown an interest in leaving the redistricting duty to others, and don’t look for it to happen anytime soon.
Hoosier Republican leaders must resist the temptation to play political payback with redistricting and instead create a process that is fair, open and free of partisanship.
Those of you who work in manufacturing businesses, and many others, are familiar with the idea that a flawed process produces flawed products.
One hundred Indiana House seats are on the ballot—though many fewer are competitive—but their outcomes may affect the state well beyond the two-year terms that the candidates seek.
Indiana Secretary of State Todd Rokita is calling on House Democrats to act on a bill passed by the Senate that would
require that new legislative maps respect county and township lines, preserve traditional
neighborhoods and create compact districts.
Governor acknowledges the economy has been taking a toll on state government and the lives of many Indiana residents.
Indiana Secretary of State Todd Rokita is pleased that state Senate Republicans have proposed changes to the way legislative
districts are drawn, but he says they don’t go far enough.
Sometimes I agree with Morton Marcus’ opinions and sometimes I don’t, but I was incredulous when I read his
“Let’s help keep legislators in check” in the [Sept. 28] IBJ.
An interim legislative committee plans to take up the issue of redistricting Tuesday at the Statehouse. Secretary of State
Todd Rokita recently pitched a plan that would make it illegal to consider political data when redrawing congressional and
legislative district maps.
All last week, I felt good that Todd Rokita, Indiana’s secretary of state, is pushing
for less partisan redistricting of political offices after the 2010 census.
