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Gov. Ron DeSantis has signed two bills that will allow Lee County voters to decide in 2026 if they want to elect Lee County ...
For example, African Americans living in the city of Gainesville tend to be concentrated in one part of town, so the transition to single-member districts enabled them to elect a candidate of ...
The Bargersville Town Council has one map to consider for the town’s first division into single-member council districts.
State, state-level GOP wants a referendum on how Lee County commissioners are elected. Local GOP groups oppose, but Governor signs the bill into law ...
A current example for that situation is District ... not improve government. Supporters of single-member districts say one of the faults with the current system is the expense of mounting a ...
Single-member districts are safer districts ... rely on gutter politics — and the further they are from reality. For example, each of Arlington’s school trustees must represent 363,000 ...
The state legislature has passed legislation which will allow Lee County voters to decide in 2026 through referendum if they ...
Single-member districts are uniquely susceptible to gerrymandering ... But the solutions are imperfect. For example, elections in those states are generally not more competitive: Safe districts ...
“I can see the pros and cons of how voters think about single-member district and at-large voting for the county commission," said Cain, who has served on several governmental advisory boards ...
BRYAN, Texas (KBTX) - Incumbent city councilmember James Edge is facing off against local businessman Shane Savage to represent District 4 on ... “We’ve had 1,100 single-family permits in ...
A senior judge on Tuesday ruled that the ballot language on an upcoming referendum in Alachua County on single-member voting districts is "unlawful" and in violation of state statute. In his ...