The money will aid Voters Not Politicians, whose organizers successfully qualified the constitutional amendment for the November ballot. “Michigan is a purple state — fairly blue in some parts, fairly red in other parts. Critics include the Michigan Republican Party, which argues that Voters Not Politicians is a Democratic “front group” that seeks to lure voters into sacrificing their voice in the redistricting process by taking the power away from those elected to the Legislature. “There are times when Democrats in Michigan controlled the state House and, at times, the Senate,” he said. The Princeton analysis found the Republican edge in Michigan’s state House districts had only a 1-in-16,000 probability of occurring by chance.

Source: National Post September 29, 2018 15:11 UTC