New York Post: Failed New York panel gets second chance to redraw Assembly lines

Oops, they might do it again!

A state judge ruled Thursday that a much-criticized state panel ought to get a second chance at redrawing Assembly district lines next year — despite fears it might once against screw up at its appointed task while wasting millions of taxpayer dollars.

“There is no doubt that the redistricting process did not work as intended,” Manhattan Supreme Court Judge Laurence Love said in the 15-page ruling of the process overseen by the Independent Redistricting Commission established by a 2014 amendment to the state Constitution.

“However, circumstances have granted all a rare opportunity for a second bite of the apple,” Manhattan Supreme Court Judge Laurence Love said while ruling against a lawsuit brought by political gadfly Gary Greenberg, New York Young Republican Club President Gavin Wax and former Democratic gubernatorial candidate Paul Nichols.

The litigious trio wanted the court to appoint a special master to draw new lines instead of the Commission, whose bunged work might ultimately cost Democrats control of Congress this November when their narrow majority is on the ballot. …

“We’ve seen this movie before. We know how it ends. Skip to appointment of special master who is familiar with New York immediately and stop wasting New Yorkers time and money with a useless bipartisan commission that defaults to the Legislature,” Susan Lerner, executive director of the good government group Common Cause New York, said in a statement.