Idaho Must Appoint New Redistricters
Idaho has to appoint an entirely new redistricting commission - not including any of the six commissioners who blew their deadline last week - and start the process over, Idaho Secretary of State Ben Ysursa announced this morning. The reason: A 2009 law that the Legislature enacted that made several changes to the redistricting commission process, including banning past commissioners from serving again. “I think it's the law of unintended consequences,” Ysursa said. The statute mainly dealt with requiring legislative districts to have road connections. “That was part of the road statute and everything else, and I don't think that was discussed a lot,” Ysursa said. “I had to go back and refresh my memory and look at it”/Betsy Russell, Eye On Boise. More here.