IN.gov - Skip Navigation

Note: This message is displayed if (1) your browser is not standards-compliant or (2) you have you disabled CSS. Read our Policies for more information.

Amber Alert
Amber Alert - TEST
Sign up to recieve e-mail and wireless updates from SOS

SOS > Media Center >  Press Releases > Indiana Secretary of State Todd Rokita Comments on Indiana House Republicans’ Redistricting Proposals Indiana Secretary of State Todd Rokita Comments on Indiana House Republicans’ Redistricting Proposals

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
November 17, 2009

Indiana Secretary of State Todd Rokita issued the following statement today regarding the Indiana House Republicans’ legislative platform including redistricting reforms:

“I find it very promising that we now have representatives in both chambers expressing their commitments to redistricting reform. This tells me that they are hearing the message from Hoosiers that partisan redistricting is no longer acceptable. Representative Bosma and his caucus continue to be leaders in pushing for redistricting reform, and selfless leadership is what it will take. I find the House Republicans’ call for transparency and a minimal use of political data promising, however, the legally unnecessary and overly-tight restrictions on population deviation is what we have now and is one of the leading excuses partisans make for drawing odd, arbitrarily shaped districts that really end up benefitting themselves, not the people. 

I look forward to this discussion in both chambers of our General Assembly in the New Year so that new criteria that put people before politics will be in place for redistricting in 2011.”

Media Contact: Jim Gavin, 317.233.8655, media@sos.in.gov

###

Stay Connected

You are leaving the IN.gov website. By clicking OK, you will be taken to a website that is not affiliated with the State of Indiana and may have different privacy and security policies. The State of Indiana is not responsible for, and does not endorse, guarantee, or monitor content, availability, viewpoints, products, or services that are offered or expressed on this non IN.gov portal website.