What prevents the General Assembly from voting down all three map plans and just substituting their own new map?
Public, media, and political pressure. In states that operate their district drawing system as we propose, their legislatures have never gotten to the point of amending the Commission-proposed maps. By opening the district-drawing process to public inspection and comment, we’ve pulled it out of the back-room dealing that used to mark map creation. Additionally, the media has always taken a keen interest in the district drawing process. Substituting their own map would be so public, so scrutinized, and so broadly criticized as to be politically unpallatable. Because the process is open and transparent under our reform plan, their self-serving political actions would be naked for everyone to see.
