Breed, Wiener blast San Francisco elections panel for considering removal of its redistricting appointees
The San Francisco Elections Commission has moved up to Friday its special meeting to consider removing its three appointees helping to redraw the city's 11 supervisorial districts ahead of the fall races for the even-numbered seats.
Its doing so has added an explosive element to the already chaotic redistricting process that is supposed to wrap up next week.Groups such as the League of Women Voters, Asian Americans Advancing Justice - Asian Law Caucus, and ACLU SF Chapter have raised concerns to the elections body about its trio of appointees on the San Francisco Redistricting Task Force.
They include queer task force member Chasel Lee, along with vice chair Ditka Reiner and Raynell Cooper. "For months, dozens of historically and systemically excluded communities in San Francisco have put in substantial time and effort to tell the task force about their communities of interest and how their communities should be respected in the draft maps.
Yet, with just a few days left in the mapping process, the needs of many of those groups have been left out of the draft supervisor maps made by the task force," wrote the league and law caucus in an April 6 letter to the elections commissioners.The oversight body had voted Wednesday to hold a special meeting on Sunday to consider removing its redistricting appointees, as the Bay Area Reporter reported in an online story April 6.
