MADISON, WI (AP)— A common practice in drawing state legislative districts has come under question in Wisconsin, where a lawsuit is seeking to reshape voting districts before the 2024 elections.
At issue is a traditional redistricting requirement that districts be contiguous. Nationally, that generally has meant all parts of a legislative district must be connected.
But the lawsuit contends most of Wisconsin's Assembly and Senate districts contain bubbles of neighborhoods not physically connected to the main part of the district. The lawsuit contends those districts violate the state constitution and should be replaced, but the state's historically inconsistent definition for contiguous complicates the argument.
