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Non-Partisan Agency Releases Second Set of Iowa Redistricting Maps Today

Redistricting Plan 2, courtesy of the Legislative Redistricting Committee

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
The nonpartisan Legislative Services Agency has released its second proposal for new political boundaries. That's after Republicans in the state Senate rejected the agency's first plan. Under the second plan, Democrat Cindy Axne and Republican Mariannette Miller-Meeks would be pushed into the same congressional district. The proposal also would keep the Democratic counties of Johnson and Linn in separate districts, unlike a previous plan rejected by Republicans this month.

The proposal would move Miller-Meeks into the 3rd District, now represented by Axne. That would leave the southeast Iowa district now represented by Miller-Meeks, newly numbered District 1, with no incumbent living there. 
 
Under the new plan, each of Iowa's four congressional districts would have favored Republican Donald Trump in the 2020 election over Democrat Joe Biden. That's a switch from the first set of maps that created two districts with strong Republican majorities, one that favored Democrats and one that was nearly equal.
Trump won Iowa with 53.1% of the vote to 44.9% for Biden.
The latest map would include 20 counties in District 1, 22 in District 2, 21 in District 3, and 36 counties in the sprawling 4th Congressional District. Each would be close to the ideal population for congressional districts of 797,592.
 
Nebraska will scale back its release of COVID-19 data, updating the information weekly rather than daily and not including county-specific data, Gov. Pete Ricketts announced today.
A press release from the Governor's Office said the change is being made because hospitalizations due to the coronavirus have dropped below a threshold set in September.
The governor also announced that the state would rescind a directed health measure that delayed some elective surgeries.
Thursday's announcement marks the latest in a series of changes to the state's public-facing COVID-19 data dashboard.
 

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