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RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Virginia voters will decide whether to back a redrawn district map that favors Democrats in the tit-for-tat battle for the U.S. House after the left-leaning Senate advanced a proposed constitutional amendment on Friday that supports mid-decade congressional redistricting.
Virginia Democratic lawmakers late Thursday revealed a redistricting proposal that would give their party an advantage in all but one of the Old Dominion’s congressional seats this November. Virginia Democrats currently hold a six-seat majority out of the state’s 11 congressional districts,
California’s ballot initiative to redraw its maps in a way that could shift five House seats from Republican to Democrat. The decision followed one in December that allowed Texas to use a map that could flip five seats the other way,