Several groups hailed the fact that the 11th Ward would be redrawn to be centered around Chinatown with a majority of Asian American voters under both maps supported by the Black and Latino caucuses during a Wednesday evening virtual meeting.
Members of eight groups, including the Coalition for a Better Chinese American Community, Asian Americans Advancing Justice and the HANA Center, hailed the fact that the 11th Ward would be redrawn to be centered around Chinatown with a majority of Asian American voters under both maps supported by the Black and Latino caucuses during a Wednesday evening virtual meeting.
“We are pleased with where things are and we are happy that there is an Asian American ward in both versions of the map,” said Grace Chan McKibben, executive director of the Coalition for a Better Chinese American Community, known as CBCAC.
State law requires Chicago wards to be “nearly equal as practicable” while being as “contiguous” and “compact” as possible while complying with the Voting Rights Act, which is designed to protect the voting rights of Black, Latino and Asian residents. The map supported by the Black Caucus crafts 16 wards with a majority of Black voters, one ward with a plurality of Black voters and 14 wards with a majority of Latino voters.
Latino Caucus Chair Ald. Gilbert Villegas accused Black Caucus Chair Ald. Jason Ervin of echoing racist rhetoric used by former President Donald Trump by crafting a map using the share of Chicagoans who are citizens older than 18, rather than the number of Chicagoans who are older than 18.“Over the past several months through this redistricting work, we’ve seen that the racial caucuses openly fight and insult each other during public hearings and behind closed doors,” Sia said.
The referendum will also be confusing for Asian American voters, some of whom do not speak English as a first language, and will be the last question on a very long ballot Sia said.
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