On November 1, the Republican majority in the Arizona Senate voted to support removing the Chair of the Arizona Redistricting Commission, an independent. The Commission has five members, two Democrats, two Republicans, and an independent. The legality of the removal is contested. See this story, which explains both the Republican slant on this story (that the Chair was guilty of “gross misconduct”) and the Democratic slant on the story (that the Chairman, Linda Mathis, did nothing wrong, and Republicans are only removing her because they don’t like the boundaries of the new districts).
If the removal is upheld by Arizona state courts, Democrats may launch recall drives against some of the Republican State Senators who voted to remove Mathis.
Thanks for putting up the Arizona voter registration data. It shows 1.12 million registered Republicans and .97 million registered Democrats in the state. The new map has 4 safe GOP seats, 3 fair-fight districts, and 2 safe Dem seats. Yet, I still hear out of Arizona that the commission too highly emphasized the ‘competitiveness’ requirement for drawing maps. It seems to me that the AZ GOP is merely upset that they didn’t get to gerrymander, and are trying to do that through a newly cowed commission.
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How many marginal gerrymander States are there — to get CONTROL of the U.S.A. gerrymander House of Reps in 2013-2022 ???