The brand new 2021 Virginia Redistricting Commission is up and running. This is new for the state, so all eyes will be on the 16-member commission as redistricting looms. You can watch the meetings here on RedistrictingOnline.
Watch commission meetings via Redistrictingonline’s Youtube playlist or the Virginia state info page to keep up to date on the commission and redistricting in Virginia in general. The commission is made up of eight citizen members and eight members of the state General Assembly.
The commission held its first meeting as a full commission on January 21. There will lots for the commissioners to consider in order to get up and running but the exact timeline for when census redistricting data will be released looms large. Currently, the Census Bureau can only definitely say that the redistricting data will not be released to states before July 30.
That most definitely means that the data release – which is traditionally released by April 1 – will not happen before late summer or early fall. The video below of the commission meeting starts at the discussion of the census data issue.
