Virginia’s flawed redistricting process is still better than chicanery in Texas, elsewhere

Virginia’s flawed redistricting process is still better than chicanery in Texas, elsewhere

Draft maps are presented at a meeting of the Virginia Redistricting Commission in October 2021. (Photo by Ned Oliver/Virginia Mercury)Here’s something I almost never say: Virginia got it right. I’m referring to the bipartisan redistricting commission, a process the commonwealth completed for the first time in 2021. Voters had earlier approved a constitutional amendment that had removed the line-drawing from legislators alone. It helped prevent t…