By Bill Cameron, WLS-AM News
(SPRINGFIELD, IL) On the November ballot you’ll be asked to vote yes or no on a couple of popular ideas.
Too often gas tax money for roads and mass transit is diverted to other expenses. Passing one referendum would put a stop to that.
You’ll also be asked whether you want to stop legislators from picking their voters when the redraw legislative district maps. You can vote to let an independent commission draw the maps. President Obama recommended this in his Better Government speech to the General Assembly February 10th.
“Today technology allows parties in power to precision draw constituencies so that the opposition supporters are packed into as few districts as possible. That’s why our districts are shaped like earmuffs or spaghetti,” Obama said back then.
In Springfield Friday, backers delivered about twice the number of signatures necessary to get this on the ballot, but it’ll be challenged in court.
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