Every county must carefully review the new census data to determine whether the county commission districts currently meet constitutional guarantees or must be redrawn.
The Census Bureau's interactive redistricting map widget enables users to view local 2010 Census data by state, including population change and race and Hispanic or Latino origin data by county.
Governor Nathan Deal has issued the formal call for the Special Session on Reapportionment. The session will begin on Monday, August 15. The Governor did include two additional issues besides reapportionment in the call notice. One is consideration of altering the T-SPLOST election date from the July primary to the general election date of November 8, 2012. The other issue to be considered is the extension of the Governor’s earlier suspension of Georgia’s gas tax which took place on July 1.
