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General Assembly Puts Witness Slips On-Line

Monitoring who supports and opposes bills is about to get even easier, thanks to an upgrade to the General Assembly's website.

 

Several years ago, in the course of outlining improvements to the Illinois Lobbyist Registration Act, ICPR urged that witness slips be posted to the internet. When legislative committees take public testimony on legislation, they collect witness slips indicating who supports and who opposes aspects of the proposals. For years, these have been kept on paper, in file cabinets, in the state house.



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Let's see the map (Editorial)

May 12, 2011
Chicago Tribune

The once-a-decade process of redistricting is usually framed as a struggle between Democrats and Republicans. The party that holds the upper hand gets to stack the new legislative maps in its favor, carving out districts designed to maximize its numbers at the expense of the other party.

This year, lawmakers have had plenty of input from the outside — from ordinary citizens who jumped at the chance to help draw the maps. Those people are eager to see if their voices were heard.

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ICPR's Statement on Redistricting

30 April 2010

Regrettably, the General Assembly has failed the citizens of Illinois again by slamming the door on the opportunity to improve state government through a meaningful overhaul of the state's redistricting process in time for the 2012 election. ICPR opposed the plan rejected by the House Thursday because sponsors did not include suggested safeguards designed to prevent the redistricting process from being hijacked by partisan interests.



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Sign petitions to change state's remap process (editorial)

April 1, 2010
Don’t wait for lawmakers to reform how districts are drawn for the Illinois General Assembly.
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