Phil Knight Gives $50K To Change Oregon’s Legislative Redistricting Process

Willamette Week:

Legislative districts get redrawn every decade, based on federal census results. Under Oregon’s current process, the Legislature reapportions districts unless lawmakers can’t agree upon new district boundaries by July 1 of the year following the census (i.e. July 1, 2011), or if there are legal challenges or a gubernatorial veto. In those cases, the Secretary of [...]

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