Comal County's League of Women Voters pushing for fair redistricting of boundaries
Will Wright The Herald-Zeitung | Published on 4/27/2021
Texas’ torrid growth over the past decade is paying off with a major boost in political clout — two additional congressional seats and electoral votes deepening its already massive influence in the nation’s politics.
The U.S. Census Bureau’s 2020 decennial sampling released Monday indicated the state gained nearly 4 million residents since 2010 — more than any other state in sheer numbers and roughly the entire population of neighboring Oklahoma.
And yet, advocates cite immigration concerns, lack of funding for education and encouragement of census participation might have led to an undercount of thousands of Texans, and impact the way the state is represented for the next decade.
The League of Women Voters of the Comal Area has worked for months to see fair and non-partisan voting maps are drawn for representatives serving in the U.S. Congress and Texas Legislature.
“The 2020 Census gives citizens in the Comal area an opportunity to call for redrawing the voting maps in an open, fair and transparent way,” said Roxanna Deane, LWV-CA president.
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