CLANCY: Virginia Must Eliminate Gerrymandered Districts
Critical to empowering voters and, in the words of Abraham Lincoln, “a government of the people, by the people and for the people” is the elimination of the gerrymandered electoral districts in Virginia. To that end, in November 2020, Virginians approved a constitutional amendment that established a bipartisan commission (composed of eight legislators and eight citizens) to draw new congressional, state senate and delegate district maps.