{"id":171,"date":"2021-08-30T14:50:51","date_gmt":"2021-08-30T20:50:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/illinois\/press-releases\/common-cause-illinois-boycotts-joint-redistricting-hearing-in-protest-of-undemocratic-mapmaking-process\/"},"modified":"2021-08-30T14:50:51","modified_gmt":"2021-08-30T20:50:51","slug":"common-cause-illinois-boycotts-joint-redistricting-hearing-in-protest-of-undemocratic-mapmaking-process","status":"publish","type":"press","link":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/illinois\/press\/common-cause-illinois-boycotts-joint-redistricting-hearing-in-protest-of-undemocratic-mapmaking-process\/","title":{"rendered":"COMMON CAUSE ILLINOIS BOYCOTTS JOINT REDISTRICTING HEARING IN PROTEST OF UNDEMOCRATIC MAPMAKING PROCESS"},"template":"","class_list":["post-171","press","type-press","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","press_type-press-release"],"acf":{"details":{"summary":"","featured_image":5122,"press_type":145,"authors":null,"related_issues":[62,412],"related_work":false,"location":16},"sidebar":{"helper_enable_sidebar":false,"helper_media_contact":{"heading":"Media Contact","manually_enter_person":false,"person":null,"name":"","role":"","phone":"","email":""},"helper_links_downloads":{"heading":"Links & Downloads","links":null}},"page_layout":[{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_wysiwyg","_acfe_flexible_toggle":null,"component_wysiwyg":{"content":"<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">CHICAGO -- Common Cause Illinois announced today that it is boycotting the hastily scheduled Joint Redistricting Committee hearing, scheduled for this Monday evening, in protest of yet another example of how mishandled and undemocratic the redistricting process has been in Illinois.\u00a0<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The organization, which has repeatedly testified at previous hearings and has mobilized its over 30,000 supporters to participate in the process, will not be engaging its network as lawmakers rush to revise maps in the shadows. The General Assembly is set to vote on revised maps on Tuesday, August 31st.\u00a0<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cSince the beginning, we\u2019ve pleaded with lawmakers to keep the redistricting process open, transparent, and accessible to no avail,\u201d said Jay Young, Executive Director of Common Cause Illinois. \u201cThis latest, last-minute hearing provides almost no notice to the public. The new maps have been released less than a day before lawmakers vote on them. It\u2019s shameful, and our organization refuses to add any legitimacy to such an undemocratic process.\u201d<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cAt each opportunity in this redistricting process, it\u2019s as if lawmakers went out of their way to ensure the creation of these maps had as little public input as possible. Rejecting an independent bipartisan redistricting commission, politicians chose to draw maps themselves. They did so behind closed doors, with a series of hearings attempting to add a veneer of public access. Yet, these hearings were consistently hastily scheduled, poorly noticed to the general public, and sparsely attended. As a result, the maps to be voted on tomorrow will not be crafted of public input, but of pure politics.\u201d<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Common Cause Illinois will be continuing its work on the creation of an independent redistricting commission in Illinois to give residents a voice in future mapmaking.\u00a0<\/span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">###<\/span>"}}]},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.6 (Yoast SEO v27.1.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>COMMON CAUSE ILLINOIS BOYCOTTS JOINT REDISTRICTING HEARING IN PROTEST OF UNDEMOCRATIC MAPMAKING PROCESS - Common Cause Illinois<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/illinois\/press-releases\/common-cause-illinois-boycotts-joint-redistricting-hearing-in-protest-of-undemocratic-mapmaking-process\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"COMMON CAUSE ILLINOIS BOYCOTTS JOINT REDISTRICTING HEARING IN PROTEST OF UNDEMOCRATIC MAPMAKING PROCESS\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/illinois\/press\/common-cause-illinois-boycotts-joint-redistricting-hearing-in-protest-of-undemocratic-mapmaking-process\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Common Cause Illinois\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/illinois\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/9c5451d41d1bd359458377552a60ca0e-womens-rights-human-rights.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"474\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"606\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/illinois\/press-releases\/common-cause-illinois-boycotts-joint-redistricting-hearing-in-protest-of-undemocratic-mapmaking-process\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/illinois\/press-releases\/common-cause-illinois-boycotts-joint-redistricting-hearing-in-protest-of-undemocratic-mapmaking-process\/\",\"name\":\"COMMON CAUSE ILLINOIS BOYCOTTS JOINT REDISTRICTING HEARING IN PROTEST OF UNDEMOCRATIC MAPMAKING PROCESS - 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