WaPo: “Virginia Democrats are initiating a plan to redraw the state’s congressional map in their favor to counter efforts to boost Republicans in other states, a push that state lawmakers will begin discussing in a special session on Monday.
…Democrats in Virginia — a purple state with a Republican governor and a Democratic majority in both statehouse chambers — hold six of 11 congressional seats. Redrawing the map there would require a constitutional amendment, which must pass both chambers in the General Assembly in two separate legislative sessions, with an intervening election in between.
If approved in the legislative sessions, the measure then goes to voters in a statewide referendum at least 90 days later. It must attain a majority of the vote to pass.
Complicating the process is the fact that in 2020, Virginia voters approved a state constitutional amendment that created a bipartisan redistricting commission, ahead of the once-a-decade redistricting process.”