Andrea Salinas helped Oregon Democrats muscle through ... It’s a quirk of the decennial redistricting season: State legislators, in charge of drawing new maps, can draw a district for themselves ...

Oregon lawmakers do not have to follow a state law that prohibits drawing political maps to benefit a specific individual because as legislators they have authority to override that statute ...

Since 1910, the state Legislature has succeeded in passing new maps ... In Oregon, all Senate districts must contain exactly two House districts. Lawmakers are directed to draw districts that ...

The drawing of Congressional maps, which include a new sixth U.S. House seat, would be handled by a five-member panel of state judges assembled by Oregon Supreme Court Chief Justice Martha Walters.

Oregon Gov. Kate Brown signed the state’s redistricting bills Monday ... had missed the deadline and allowed the power to draw that map to pass to Democratic Secretary of State Shemia Fagan.

SALEM, Ore. — Oregon's redistricting maps have been approved, but the Princeton Gerrymandering Project — a team of academics and legal analysts at Princeton University — gave the state a ...

Oregon Secretary of State Shemia Fagan has taken the unusual ... would increase the likelihood that the Legislature could draw maps that satisfy the court and would stand, thus giving the ...

Last month the Oregon Department of Forestry released a new map, created with Oregon State University ... Now, apparently, it's back to the drawing board.

SALEM, Oregon — The fight over ... of State and a committee of five judges to draw up the state legislative and congressional districts. The new map includes four U.S. House seats that either ...

OREGON: For Oregon resident Matt McCaw, the big question is not why his state should remain as it is – but rather, why it will not be formally divided. The executive director of the “Greater ...