A powerful Republican legislative leader has proposed that Arizona hold a May special election for voters to consider alternative redistricting maps to use in the 2012 elections instead of ones drawn by the Independent Redistricting Commission.

House Speaker Andy Tobin’s proposed legislation introduced late Thursday would put alternative congressional and legislative maps on a May 15 special election ballot.
One of the five measures would ask voters in November to amend the Arizona Constitution to revamp the makeup of the independent redistricting commission.

“The voters need a clear choice,” Tobin said. “The IRC process was stolen from the voters and I’m giving it back to the voters.”

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