Who makes the redistricting decisions?
The Florida Legislature. When the legislature passes a Congressional or legislative redistricting plan, it’s just like other legislation. All representatives and senators vote on the plan. The party that controls the legislature controls redistricting. The plan that gets the majority vote becomes the legislature’s plan. No matter which party has control of the legislature, that party’s main goal is to protect its majority in as many districts as possible while concentrating the strength of the other party into as few districts as possible. This is called partisan political gerrymandering. It is like allowing the fox to guard the hen-house or getting to choose your own cards in a poker game! Here are some quotes from Florida news papers on why Amendments 5 & 6 are so important: “The current system of drawing legislative and congressional districts is broken” –St. Pete Times “There is nothing state lawmakers guard more jealously than their power to rig legislative and congressional distr
