NEWS10 ABC: Albany, New York News, Weather, SportsCuomo, NY Legislature discuss redistricting plans
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - New York's Legislature has proposed adding four election districts that will be dominated by Asian-American voters and the Senate would add a 63rd seat under a long-awaited redistricting plan.
The Assembly would create three districts in Asian-American neighborhoods in Queens and Brooklyn.
The Senate would reconfigure election lines in Queens to form an Asian-majority district.
The proposed districts released Thursday would also create a new Senate seat in Democrat-dominated Albany County by carving out a section of suburbs dominated by Republican voters. The Senate's Republican majority says census data and voting rights laws demand the addition in the faster growing Albany area.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo says he will veto lines not drawn by an independent commission. These were drawn by the legislative majorities.
See the proposed redistricting maps here: http://www.latfor.state.ny.us/maps/
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