The Florida Senate rejected a map to create new districts for itself and adjourned Thursday, leaving the Legislature with its second failed session this year. The chamber of congress voted 23-16 against the map that the House had approved, Tuesday. Senators said the maps were flawed and would divide communities. They also criticized a constitutional amendment that they said forces them to put the shape of a district. The vote means lawmakers will leave the state capital with absolutely no agreement and that the courts will make the final decision on how the Senate's 40 districts will be drawn. Voters approved a constitutional amendment in 2010 requiring smaller districts that aren't drawn to benefit parties or incumbents. This is the third time that legislators have been forced to redraw state Senate districts in the past three years.
I feel that states should have the right to create their own city lines due to voting and districting. If the maps were drawn incorrectly then there would have been a reason for the maps to be rejected. I'm not as optimistic that those people will be significantly more important than these people.The amendments to our constitution pulled the soul out of map drawing, pulled the soul out of districts. Now we fall into the hands of a court. Nobody wins under that scenario. By blaming the amendments, rather than themselves, they are simply preserving the extinction of their opposition to the gain of the people and engaging in the very conduct that Florida voters clearly wanted to eliminate from our state.
This has to do with what we are learning in class because we learned about gerrymandering and drawing state lines.
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