Which Form 2220 Amend 2023-2024

Welcome to "At Issue." Thank you so much for joining us. I'm H Wayne Wilson. I will share a couple of numbers with you. We happen to know that ninety-eight percent of incumbents are reelected in Illinois legislative races. Ninety-eight percent of incumbents in general elections are reelected. We're going to talk about why that number is so high, and we're going to be talking about an effort to change the way districts are shaped in the state of Illinois. To help us with that conversation is Jan's arnoc. Jan is the executive director of the Illinois League of Women Voters. Thank you for joining us. Thank you for having me. And Brad McMillan is here. Brad wears several hats. He, of course, is at Bradley University with the Institute for principled leadership in public service. But more importantly for this conversation, Brad was/is a member of the Illinois Reform Commission. One of the duties of which was, well, we had a hundred days to report back to the governor and to the General Assembly on how we clean up Illinois government politics. And the area that I focused my attention on was redistricting. And we brought in experts from across the country that gave us best practice models, and Illinois was not on that list. In fact, our current process is probably the worst in the country. And so, in our report, we called for sweeping reform, and that framework is now what makes up the Illinois Fair Map Amendment. And we'll talk about Fair Map in just a moment, but a couple of more numbers just to put this all in perspective. We mentioned 98% re-elected those who choose to run again. There are some more numbers. Of the 547 races since 2001, the last time redistricting took...