Election Commissioners offer new Senate districting map proposal
The State Board, consisting of Gov. Tate Reeves, Attorney General Lynn Fitch and Secretary of State Michael Watson, was again tasked with redrawing the districts in DeSoto County. The action is to satisfy the order of a three-judge federal panel that a minority-majority district be drawn in DeSoto County.
The rendering, released in the latest legal response as it tries to comply with a court order last year to give Black voters a better chance to elect Blacks to the state Senate from DeSoto County.
Under the latest map, Senate District 2 becomes a minority-majority district. Senate District 11 remains a Black-majority district but lowers its Black voting population by about nine percent.
What McLendon says he was most pleased with is that under the new plan, Hernando is not divided as the previous rendering provided.
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