Virginia voters are casting early ballots at a faster pace than last year’s governor’s race ahead of a special election to decide whether to redraw the state’s congressional district lines, according to data from the Virginia Public Access Project.
The special election, scheduled for April 21, has only one item on the ballot: a referendum on whether to adopt a new congressional map drawn by Virginia’s Democratic-controlled legislature. Early voting runs through April 18.
Congressional districts are the geographic boundaries that determine which voters elect which members of the U.S. House of Representatives. If the referendum passes, the new map would replace the current boundaries drawn by a bipartisan commission in 2021….
