Nine Haverford Petitioners of Redistricting Plan Identified
Residents want the State Supreme Court to review a proposal that would move township wards into a different district.
(Editor's note: At around 11:30 a.m., Wednesday, commission member and Majority Leader Sen. Dominic Pileggi's communications director replied to Patch's request for comment. Please see the bottom of this article.) Nine Haverford Township residents who filed a legal petition against the commonwealth’s Legislative Reapportionment Commission’s latest proposal to move wards 1 and 9 from the 166th district to the 163rd have been identified. In an interview with the Haverford-Havertown Patch on Tuesday, State Rep. Greg Vitali (D-166) said that nine township residents filed a legal petition to the commonwealth’s State Supreme Court to have it review the commission’s June proposal to alter 28 Senate districts and 43 House districts—which would …
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11:51 am on Friday, July 13, 2012
I think the two comments so far fail to understand that the very nature of a split in a political subdivision is assumed to cause harm (and in my opinion it does). The Pa. Constitution states that no political subdivision whould be split unless absolutely necessary. Other factors to consider are the populations in each district. The ideal number is aproximately 62K. Only one township in Delaware … more ›