Brian Lear on WNYC as New York's redistricting saga continues.

As most of you know, every 10 years following the census, states redraw their congressional district lines and other district lines

to take account of population shifts.

But politics being what it is, those lines are often drawn to benefit the party in charge and usually

the current office holders. They also have to try and keep communities together and

those lines can be drawn to strengthen or break up potential voting blocks.

The resulting maps are sometimes so crazy.

They coined a term to describe the odd salamander-shaped

districts once upon a time, that that term gerrymandering. New York joined a

handful of other states to try to take the politics out of the process when

voters in 2014 approved a new so-called independent commission to draw the lines

which was tried following the 2020 census.

It didn't work out so well.

It all ended up in the courts and this year they tried again.

And yesterday, the democratically controlled state legislature, Democratic Party in control,

rejected the Independent Commission's second effort

and released their own districts overnight

which they will vote on this week.

Now we're still learning how this might affect the June 25th

congressional primaries as petitioning starts today by the way to get on those ballots.

So candidates have to figure out which neighborhoods are in

their district and which neighborhoods are not and it's not really

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