You can pass resolutions, express your opinion at public hearings and before legislative committees, birddog the lawmakers making the decisions, but you cannot stop the majority party from giving itself every advantage it can to retain power when it redraws political boundaries.
And despite the efforts of many like the League of Women Voters, Fair Maps and Open Democracy to have a fair and open redrawing of the state’s political boundaries, the maps were drawn behind closed doors, by political operatives and their computer programs, and when finally passed and signed into law would ensure Republicans remain in power for the next 10 years in the Senate and Executive Council and probably the House.
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