Staff from the Florida Senate andĀ Auditor Generalās office metĀ Tuesday to assign random numbers to districts in the stateās new Senate District map.
Here are the results, with the first number being the district number on the map as adopted by Circuit Judge George Reynolds; the second is the new randomly assigned district number. Same numbers means districts stay the same:
- 1-2
- 2-1
- 3-3
- 4-4
- 5-5
- 6-7
- 7-8
- 8-12
- 9-6
- 10-9
- 11-10
- 12-11
- 13-14
- 14-13
- 15-22
- 16-17
- 17-18
- 18-20
- 19-19
- 20-16
- 21-15
- 22-24
- 23-28
- 24-21
- 25-30
- 26-26
- 27-31
- 28-23
- 29-32
- 30-27
- 31-33
- 32-25
- 33-35
- 34-29
- 35-37
- 36-40
- 37-36
- 38-39
- 39-38
- 40-34
TheĀ random numbering was done usingĀ the randomizing function in Microsoft’s Excel spreadsheet software. Reynolds ordered the renumbering as part of his earlier decision.
In a memo announcing the meeting, Senate President Andy Gardiner said: “Complying with the circuit court ruling does not preclude the possibility the Senate will take further legal action in this case.”
On Tuesday, Senate spokeswoman Katie Betta said a decision on challenging Reynolds’ ruling had not yet been made.
In a conference call last week, plaintiffs’ attorney David King said he didnāt know what the Senate would gain by appealing Reynoldsā ruling, calling the decision ārock solid.ā
InĀ redrawing the boundariesĀ of the Senate’s 40-district map, Reynolds picked aĀ map drawn by a coalition of voter-rights groups, including the League of Women Voters of Florida, who sayĀ the current districts violate the state constitution’s anti-gerrymandering provision.
The Senate ruling wasĀ theĀ second time in the pastĀ year that the courts have decided the stateās political boundaries.
In October, Circuit Court Judge Terry Lewis endorsed a map drawn by the League of Women Voters of Florida and Common Cause as the new boundaries for the stateās congressional districts.
Those organizations and others sued the state over congressional and state Senate district lines. They said the existing maps violated the stateās āFair Districtsā constitutional amendments aimed at prohibiting gerrymandering.
A technical description of Tuesday’sĀ renumbering process is here.
The new map, not yet renumbered, is here.
