Morning Digest: Washington court accepts redistricting board's new maps, even though they came late
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The Daily Kos Elections Morning Digest is compiled by David Nir, Jeff Singer, Stephen Wolf, Daniel Donner, and Carolyn Fiddler, with additional contributions from David Jarman, Steve Singiser, James Lambert, David Beard, and Arjun Jaikumar. Leading Off ●Morning Digest: Washington court accepts redistricting board's new maps, even though they came late
The Daily Kos Elections Morning Digest is compiled by David Nir, Jeff Singer, Stephen Wolf, Daniel Donner, and Carolyn Fiddler, with additional contributions from David Jarman, Steve Singiser, James Lambert, David Beard, and Arjun Jaikumar. Leading Off ● WA Redistricting: Washington's Supreme Court ruled on Friday that the state's bipartisan redistricting commission had «substantially complied» with state law requiring it to transmit new maps to the legislature by the legal deadline of midnight on Nov. 15, despite the fact that the panel only voted to do so after the clock had struck midnight. That final vote took place after a chaotic meeting during which commissioners appeared to violate state transparency laws by huddling in private, then sought to approve maps that had never been shared with the public—or even with the entire panel, since one member, Democrat Brady Walkinshaw, later said he hadn't seen the plans before they were shipped. Read more