State Groups Add 10,000 Signatures to Petition Against Redistricting

INDIANAPOLIS — Opponents to Indiana redistricting have delivered another 10,000 petition signatures to Gov. Mike Braun.

Voting rights advocacy groups have now sent a petition with around 20,000 total signatures from all 92 counties to Braun’s office at the Indiana Statehouse, asking the governor to not call for a special session to redraw Indiana’s congressional maps.

Groups like Common Cause Indiana and Indiana Conservation Voters have been collecting the signatures. Megan Robertson, Indiana Conservation Voters executive director, said most Hoosiers are against mid-decade redistricting.

“It just sends a really clear message that folks do not want this,” Robertson said to WISH-TV. “They would like the governor to focus on issues that matter to them and impact their everyday lives instea