florida redistricting

Proposed maps for new congressional and legislative districts could be in front of state lawmakers before they begin the annual legislative session in January, but public input might be limited to a special website and people who journey to the Capitol. Legislators and staff members likely don’t have enough time to travel the state to take comments for the once-a-decade reapportionment process.

Florida lawmakers will follow a new set of rules when drawing the state’s legislative and congressional district maps. The changes are meant to prevent intentional partisan gerrymandering from happening this time around.

Getting aid to Haiti post-earthquake. Florida’s congressional maps are about to be redrawn. Plus, a new TV series tells the unbelievable story of speedboat racers from Miami turned drug kingpins.

New rules on how legal challenges to newly drawn legislative districts would work cleared their first hurdle in the Florida House on Wednesday after the…

Republicans control the reins of power in Florida, but Democrats think the new maps will help them unseat some GOP incumbents both in Congress and in the state Legislature.

The Florida Senate rested its case in support of a proposed map during the second day of a redistricting trial Tuesday, as lawyers for voting-rights…

Leon County Circuit Judge Terry Lewis recommended Friday that the Florida Supreme Court adopt a set of congressional districts proposed by voting-rights...

A plan to redraw Florida's 27 congressional districts overwhelmingly passed the state House Tuesday, inching closer to a potential face off with the…

Changes to a proposed map of Florida's 27 congressional districts emerged Wednesday, a day before key hearings in the House and Senate about how to comply…

Pointing to a time crunch, a Leon County circuit judge Wednesday gave the Florida Legislature little more than two months to draw new congressional…