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The Heritage Acton poll shows 43 percent of respondents are opposed to changing the constitution,, while 26 percent support the referendum.

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With less than a month before election day in Virginia, a new poll finds voters aren’t crazy about the Democrats’ plan to change the constitution in order to rig the commonwealth’s political maps. 

Heritage Action’s Redistricting Poll of 814 likely Virginia voters gauges support — and opposition — for the April 21 ballot question asking whether the state’s constitution should be altered. Members of the Democrat-controlled Assembly want to “temporarily” push aside the work of a state redistricting commission so that they can rewrite Virginia’s congressional maps. They want an extreme gerrymander that aims to take out four Republican House seats and give Democrats a 10-1 advantage in the state’s congressional delegation. 

A plurality of Virginia voters oppose the proposed constitutional amendment to upend a 2020 amendment creating the bipartisan commission. That commission drew up the current congressional maps. According to the poll, 43 percent of respondents are opposed, while 26 percent say they support the ballot question. Another 30 percent said they were unsure. 

Asked “Who should draw Virginia’s electoral maps: partisan elected leaders, or bipartisan commissions that include private citizens?” just 1 percent of respondents said politicians. Nearly three-quarters back the commission, and 25 percent aren’t sure.

Virginia voters hate gerrymandering, the twisting manipulation of political maps to benefit one party over the other. Seventy-six percent said “no” to the practice. By the same token, 61 percent said electoral maps should not “disproportionately favor one political party over another.” 

A poll last month by the Institute for Policy and Opinion Research at Roanoke College showed 62 percent of Virginians back the bipartisan commission deciding the state’s congressional maps.  

The ballot question asks, “Should the Constitution of Virginia be amended to allow the General Assembly to temporarily adopt new congressional districts to restore fairness in the upcoming elections, while ensuring Virginia’s standard redistricting process resumes for all future redistricting after the 2030 census?”

Heritage Action’s poll found the Democrats’ “fairness” phrasing boosts voters’ backing of the referendum. 

“Based on this ballot language alone, would you support or oppose this amendment?” Forty-five percent of respondents said they would, while 36 recent said they would not. 

Heritage Action approached the topic a different way, asking whether electoral maps should represent the interests of politicians, or voters. Perhaps not surprisingly, 87 percent of respondent chose the latter. 

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