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Following the 2016 election, Katie Fahey’s Facebook post started a 5,000+ volunteer grassroots movement, collecting over 425,000 signatures to support an amendment to Michigan’s constitution to establish an Independent Citizens Redistricting Commission to end gerrymandering. The amendment passed with 61% of the vote on November 6, 2018.
Read about Katie’s inspiring story in The American Leader here.
Read about how gerrymandering fits into the broader context of Voting Rights and Voter Suppression in America in The American Leader here.
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