While the legislators of Indiana consider the re -division of circles, Porter County officials are essential to the idea of dividing the province between two regions of Congress.
A map to re -divide Indiana on social media has been shared through the X/Twitter account within the @Ericson_68, and suggests the division of Porter Province by placing its northeastern part in the second Congress region and the remaining southwestern part in the first Congress.
The first area currently has all the provinces of the lake and Porter, along with the northwestern part of Laport County. Under the proposed map, the first province will include all Lake and the southern half of the Porter Province and then turn east towards Miami and Heard provinces. The map also divides Marion County into three regions.
Two spokesperson for Republican Legislative leaders said that the leadership did not see the map until the media began to ask about this week.
From Friday noon, state governor Mike Brown did not contact a special session to discuss the re -division of departments.
Senator Ed Sharpono, R-Valparaiso, said that he had not seen a current map of Indiana, who is not aware of a map that is shared on social media.
Sharpono said he was still considering his position on the re -division of circles in Indiana, and that he was not sure to divide Porter’s province.
“I did not give her any real idea, and how to re -divide the circles,” said Sharono.
The mayor of Portage Austin Punta said he saw the map and that he was anxious. Punta said that Indiana has always been aimed at a box in the form of a box that captures the areas well, and Punta needs to represent a whole area of the state.
“I want to see areas of the state representative. Portage is the heart of the northwest of Indiana, and any map we graduated from northwest of Indiana I don’t think it is very fruitful for us,” said Ponta.
President Donald Trump and the National Republicans were pressuring the red countries to change Congress maps before the 2026 elections to increase the republican control of the US House of Representatives.
Texas lawmakers recently agreed to the re -distributed maps to include five new areas that would prefer Republicans. Texas Governor Greg Abbott promised to register quickly on new maps, but a lawsuit has already been filed against Abbott and the Foreign Minister of Maps.
In California, the governor of Democratic state, Gavin New Zoom, agreed to special elections in November (November) to vote on the re -drawn congress map designed to help Democrats win seats in the House of Representatives next year.
Meanwhile, Trump paid other countries controlled by Republicans, including Indiana and Missouri, to also review its maps to add more republican seats that can be profit. It was already decided by Ohio Republics to review their maps to make them more partisan.
It is not customary to be re -divided the circles in the middle of the contract and usually occurs once at the beginning of each contract to coincide with the census.
Indiana was recently redistributed in 2021, which left Republicans in Congress with seven seats and Democrats. The two democratic seats are the first neighborhood, which is maintained by American MP Frank, and the seventh area, which was held by American MP André Carson.
Julia Von, executive director of COMMON CEUSE Indiana, said when Indiana’s lawmakers deal with the division of circles, there are not many rules that must be followed, especially when establishing Congress areas.
When establishing areas in Congress, legislators in Indiana must ensure that the provinces are relatively equal in the population and that they honor the voting rights law by not dividing or mobilizing minority voters in an unfair way.
Von said that while voting rights organizations call for the preservation of societies of interest, such as portraits of Porter and Marion, it is not an Indiana law to be followed by the legislative body.
Von said efforts to divide the circles of the federal level make Hoseirus “in this chess game.”
Von said: “We must all be insulted because we divide the circles of the declared intention to manipulate the elections.” “If we normalize this behavior, democracy is really dangerous.”
If the legislative body decides to repeat the Toric, Punta says he does not see a reason to divide Porter’s province between two regions. Punta said that keeping the lake and portraits in one area guarantees the entire area of the area.
“I think it is important that it is not classified for arbitrary reasons,” said Punta. “If you take an area and cut it into different pieces to enter it into areas that fit in a certain way, I think it is very difficult for someone to represent an area.”
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The head of the Republican Party in the province of Porter Nate Osrex said he saw the map on social media, but he questioned this.
If Porter’s boycott is divided between two regions, Udrix said it was not immediately clear to him, what are the effects of this.
“Outside the cuff, maintaining a porter’s boycott in one area will be cleaner,” said Audrex. “I don’t know how bad it is.”
Uldricks said he had no comment when he was asked about his ideas about re -dividing the middle circuits.
The head of the Democratic Province Party, Don Kraft, said he saw the joint map on social media. He said that the Republicans have already fill in Indiana maps in Congress and the state.
Kraft said the southern part of Porter’s province has a larger republic base, while the northern part of Porter Province has a greater democratic base.
Kraft said that the division of Porter’s boycott during the re-division of circles will be “ridiculous”, especially if the goal of re-dividing the circles is to put more Republicans in the first area to remove US MP Frank MRVAN, D-HIGHLAND, from his position.
Kraft said that he will not be surprised if there is a special session to re -divide the circles, but he hopes that the private session will not be called. Kraft said that the re -division of circles should remain the same, after each census.
“I hope they will not use their current political power to deny Democratic voters in Indiana,” Kraft said.
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