MN: Green Party Challenge May Lead to Redistricting Reform

The Minneapolis Star Tribune reports that legal challenges brought forward by Green party candidates for office are helping build momentum for redistricting reform:

Momentum is building at Minneapolis City Hall for devising a fairer process for drawing the ward and other election boundaries that govern for whom voters may vote . . . [The City Council's Election Committee] have asked the Charter Commission to devise a fairer, more transparent process for drawing election lines that could be presented to voters as a charter amendment next fall . . . Some of the momentum for changing how political lines are drawn comes from a legal challenge by Green Party candidates and others to the boundaries drawn in 2002 by the city's last redistricting commission. That lawsuit alleged that the redistricting group lacked enough minority group or Green members to be representative, and that it treated minority voters unfairly.