<div><b style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19.200000762939453px">Question 5</b><br></div><div><b style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19.200000762939453px">Referendum Petition<br>
Congressional Districting Plan (Ch. 1 of the 2011 Special Session)</b><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19.200000762939453px"><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19.200000762939453px">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19.200000762939453px">Establishes the boundaries for the State’s eight United States Congressional Districts based on recent census figures, as required by the United States Constitution.</span><br>
</div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19.200000762939453px"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19.200000762939453px">----</span></div>
<div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19.200000762939453px"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19.200000762939453px">A vote "for" question 5 means that you support the congressional districts as currently submitted. A vote against apparently means they need to try again. </span></div>
<div><br></div><div><font color="#000000" face="sans-serif"><span style="line-height:19.200000762939453px">The current draft of the district boundaries changes the 6th Congressional District so that it stretches nearly 200 miles, from the West Virginia line to the Capital Beltway.</span></font></div>
<div><br></div><div>Here's a nice summary of different points of view (with links):</div><div><a href="http://ballotpedia.org/wiki/index.php/Maryland_Redistricting_Referendum,_Question_5_(2012)#cite_note-ballotquestion-1">http://ballotpedia.org/wiki/index.php/Maryland_Redistricting_Referendum,_Question_5_(2012)#cite_note-ballotquestion-1</a><br>
</div><div><br></div><div>This article in the Washington Post lays out the positions on both sides of Question 5. </div><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/md-politics/for-maryland-democrats-redistricting-referendum-forces-a-look-in-the-mirror/2012/09/30/58dd369a-09bb-11e2-a10c-fa5a255a9258_story.html">http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/md-politics/for-maryland-democrats-redistricting-referendum-forces-a-look-in-the-mirror/2012/09/30/58dd369a-09bb-11e2-a10c-fa5a255a9258_story.html</a><br>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>My personal opinion? Gerrymandering should be discouraged. </div><div><br></div><div>-Sarah</div><div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 8:01 PM, sheila <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:herb4u@verizon.net" target="_blank">herb4u@verizon.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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I find it interesting that town has not weighed in on the redistricting question.  Any opinions?<br>
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</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br>Sarah Wayland<br><a href="mailto:sarah.wayland@gmail.com">sarah.wayland@gmail.com</a><br>
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