House Launches Redistricting Website

Rep. Will Weatherford, R-Wesley Chapel, the incoming House speaker who is currently chairing the House Redistricting Committee, unveiled a new website designed to include the public in the cumbersome, chaotic and often confusing process of drawing up new seats at the legislative and congressional levels.

In the coming months, FloridaRedistricting.org will serve to help educate the public on redistricting, provide a portal to MyDistrictBuilder, and ultimately enable Floridians to start the conversation on redistricting, said Weatherford on Monday. Most importantly, the new FloridaRedistricting.org is another step toward implementing the most open and accessible redistricting process in the country.

The Legislature is required by law to put the redistricting puzzle together, added Weatherford. However, through FloridaRedistrcting.Org, MyDistrictBuilder, our social media and other outreach efforts, we can make this upcoming redistricting a two-way conversation with Floridians. Redistricting ultimately reflects the portrait of Floridas many diverse communities, and were going to give them a chance to help paint that portrait.

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