Virginia's Proposed Constitutional Amendment

Here's the ballot question we are deciding today in the Old Dominion: Should the Constitution of Virginia be amended to allow the General Assembly to temporarily adopt new congressional districts to restore fairness in the upcoming elections, while ensuring Virginia's standard redistricting process resumes for all future redistricting after the 2030 census? Here's a decent non-partisan explainer. Here's my gist: back in 2020, in a 65-35% statewide, vote we took the redistricting of congressional and state legislative districts out of the hands of the normal political process and gave them to an appointed bipartisan commission. The congressional lines aren't scheduled to be redrawn until after the 2030 census, but a bunch of other states are making partisan plays to redraw their lines now, mid-decade. Approving this amendment would authorize the redrawing of lines in Virginia by the normal political process now, but revert us to the bipartisan commission system after 2030. It is…