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State Dems push to end what they see as gerrymandering

Gerrymandering is a term you hear a lot about every ten years or so, when state legislatures across the country start to redraw legislative districts after the census. It happens when districts are drawn in a way that favors one political party against another.

In Michigan, Republicans have controlled the redistricting process during the past two censuses, and Democrats have accused them of gerrymandering. Now some Democrats are pushing to change how redistricting is done, which they say would make it less political.

Rick Pluta, Capitol bureau chief for the Michigan Public Radio Network, says the idea is to create an independent commission to do redistricting.