We need the Fair Districts organizers to get all over this.

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Florida’s Redistricting Timeline Appears To Be the Worst in the Nation


As previously reported Florida’s deadline for redistricting is June 18, 2012. With an August primary, this is nothing more than an incumbent (and Republican) protection racket, since it makes it almost impossible for challengers or underfunded candidates to know what their district is in time to mount a significant campaign for the 2012 elections. Based on a suggestion by Mario Piscatella, I looked into what other states are doing in terms of redistricting. What I found was that Florida has, by a significant margin in most cases, the latest date for the 2012 cycle of any state. A few states aren’t doing redistricting before the 2012 elections, but that means that their process will give 2014 challengers a lot of time to get ready before that election. For the 2012 election cycle, no state has a worse set of dates than Florida. This isn’t a coincidence and it’s part of a bigger problem and part of the explanation as to why Republicans win so much in Florida — they stack the rules in their favor.

Here’s what the other states are doing:


http://quinnell.us/sspb/?p=9671