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Parties Clash Over Drawing Illinois Political Map
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) -- Democrats and Republicans in Illinois both agree on at least one thing: Illinois has a silly system for drawing political districts and should dump it immediately.

Key members of both parties are backing rival overhaul plans. It's entirely possible that neither plan will be approved, leaving Illinois with the same system that has been mocked for decades.

Political districts are redrawn every 10 years to reflect population changes. Illinois leaves the key decision in that process -- the question of which party gets to draw the political map -- to random chance.

Then the winning party controls the map, with no reason to consider the other party. Changing that process suddenly became a popular idea after Gov. Rod Blagojevich's arrest and impeachment.

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