Chris LisinskiState House News ServiceBOSTON - Some local voting precincts may be split into two state legislative districts in the ongoing decennial redistricting effort, a top lawmaker said Monday during a hearing at which constituents called for reshaping the Fourth Congressional District. "There is no feasible way for the legislative process to wait for the local reprecincting process this year," he said. Brownsberger and Moran's panel is partway through a series of hearings to receive public testimony from constituents in the state's nine congressional districts about redistricting. One of the largest questions the committee will need to answer is how to handle Fall River. The northwestern chunk of Fall River is in the Fourth Congressional District that Auchincloss represents, while the remainder falls into the Ninth Congressional District represented by Congressman William Keating.

Source: MetroXpress July 20, 2021 02:03 UTC