TEXAS REDISTRICTING
Updates and News about the 2011 Redistricting Cycle in the Lone Star State.
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County associations today proposed a handful of changes to the election schedule adopted by the San Antonio court before the Christmas holiday. The changes would:
- Give counties until February 20 (rather than January 31) to redraw precinct boundaries, if needed,
- Suspend the need for counties to have new precinct boundaries precleared under section 5 of the Voting Rights Act,
- Give counties until March 9 (rather than February 13) to issue new voter registration certificates,
- Give counties until March 9 to send out mail ballots to military personnel and overseas voters, notwithstanding requirements of the federal MOVE Act.
The county associations also told the court that the deadlines and dates in the court’s order might have to be revisited if the ultimate maps were not ‘substantially similar’ to either the state’s maps or the court’s interim maps.
Here is the county associations’ advisory:
And here is the county associations’ proposed revised election schedule order:
