BATON ROUGE — Candidates vying for the seat left behind by Judge Wilson Fields in the 19th JDC said they are making strides in reaching voters after the election maps were changed.

Candidates said after Judge Fields took his seat in the First Circuit Court of Appeals in March, they were already campaigning in the old subdistrict of Division O.

After the new maps were signed into law and implemented, candidate Vicky Jones said it changed everything.

"The budget that I had prior to July, we had to restructure and revamp after we became aware that the new map is what we would be following,” Jones said.

Candidate Dele Adebamiji said he thought he would be able to reach all voters within a short period of time, but with the new map, Division O grew three times larger.

“You have this plan l

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