CONWAY — Selectmen Tuesday joined the municipal budget committee in recommending a petitioned warrant article to ask the state to consider a new method for drawing political maps.
Erik Corbett, the man behind the petition locally, said, "I don't think either party should be in charge of redrawing the maps and essentially picking their voters.
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