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Foes of new state Senate maps reach milestone in referendum drive

By Jean Merl
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Fairness and Accountability in Redistricting (FAIR), a Republican-backed group trying to overturn new state Senate district maps, has announced it has collected more than 200,000 signatures in its campaign to put the maps before voters.

FAIR has until Nov. 13 to get the 504,760 voter signatures required for a referendum on the maps, and it says it is ahead of schedule. The group also has filed suit in the California Supreme Court challenging the maps. The California Redistricting Commission, the citizens group that drew the maps for the first time this year, has until Oct. 10 to respond to the court challenge.

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No word yet on how another GOP group is doing in its attempt to qualify a referendum on the new congressional district maps.

-- Jean Merl

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Jean Merl

Jean Merl, a hopeless news junkie, covered regional politics for the Los Angeles Times until 2015. She was raised in southern Ohio but moved with her family to Los Angeles at a tender age, which practically makes her a California native. She holds a master’s degree from UCLA and remembers when Otis Chandler was publisher of The Times and Tom Bradley was mayor of L.A.

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