Letter: Let voters Weigh in on Independent Map Amendment
The Illinois Campaign for Political Reform was mentioned in this article
via Rockford Register Star
“When our state redrafted its constitution in 1970, citizens were given the opportunity to propose amendments to the basic structure and operation of the state legislature.
According to the record of proceedings of the Constitutional Convention, giving citizens the ability to propose amendments would allow voters to ‘overcome’ a ‘reluctance on the part of the General Assembly’ to change its ‘own domain.’
In layman’s terms, voters were granted the power to fix problems that state legislators had no incentive or motivation to address. The Independent Map Amendment was drafted to solve one of those problems: the conflict of interest created when legislators draw boundary lines for their own legislative districts. Hundreds of thousands of valid Illinois citizen signatures supporting the Independent Map Amendment were gathered and submitted to the Illinois State Board of Elections, which officially declared that enough valid voter signatures have been submitted to place this proposal on the November ballot.”
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