Michigan Citizens Redistricting Commission Amendment (2014)
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| This measure was not put on an election ballot |
The Michigan Citizens Redistricting Commission Amendment was not on the November 4, 2014 ballot in Michigan as a legislatively referred constitutional amendment. The measure would have created a fourteen member citizens redistricting commission to apportion state legislative and congressional districts.[1]
The fourteen person commission would have been made up of the following:[1]
- Five people selected by the political party whose candidate won the previous gubernatorial election.
- Five people selected by the political party whose candidate came in second place in the previous gubernatorial election.
- Four people who are not affiliated with either of the two political parties placing first and second in the previous gubernatorial election.
People who served as elected or appointed government officials, as officers of a political party or received compensation as a lobbyist during the preceding ten years would have not been eligible to serve on the citizens commission. People appointed to the commission would not have been allowed to run for office or receive compensation as a lobbyist for five years after their appointment to the commission.[1]
Any final decisions on redistricting would have required the agreement of at least nine members of the commission, including at least three members from each of the two political parties placing first and second in the previous gubernatorial election and three members not-affiliated with either of the two political parties.[1]
Support
Supporters
The following officials sponsored the amendment in the legislature:[1]
- Rep. Sean McCann (D-60)
- Rep. Andy Schor (D-68)
- Rep. Adam Zemke (D-55)
- Rep. Dian Slavens (D-21)
- Rep. Ellen Cogen Lipton (D-27)
- Rep. Phil Cavanagh (D-10)
- Rep. Sarah Roberts (D-18)
- Rep. Gretchen Driskell (D-52)
- Rep. Brandon Dillon (D-75)
- Rep. Jeff Irwin (D-53)
- Rep. Bill LaVoy (D-17)
- Rep. Douglas A. Geiss (D-12)
- Rep. Tom Cochran (D-67)
- Rep. Jon Switalski (D-28)
- Rep. Charles M. Brunner (D-96)
- Rep. Pam Faris (D-48)
- Rep. Charles Smiley (D-50)
- Rep. Sam Singh (D-69)
- Rep. Robert L. Kosowski (D-16)
- Rep. George T. Darany (D-15)
- Rep. David Knezek (D-11)
- Rep. John Olumba (I-3)
- Rep. David Rutledge (D-54)
- Rep. Vicki Barnett (D-57)
- Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-12)
- Rep. Stacy Erwin Oakes (D-95)
Path to the ballot
- See also: Amending the Michigan Constitution
In order for the state legislature to place the measure on the ballot, a minimum two-thirds vote was required in both the Michigan House of Representatives and the Michigan State Senate.
See also
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