Illinois Valley Times

State Sen. Win Stoller (R-Germantown Hills) joined the chorus of Illinois Republican voices decrying the new legislative district maps approved by the General Assembly’s lower chamber late last month.

The Daily Chronicle reported that the state House approved the newly drawn maps 73-43 along party lines, a move Stoller and his fellow Republicans have heavily criticized.

"After finding out their original maps were unconstitutional, the majority party passed their partisan maps late Tuesday night,” Stoller shared on Facebook. “It’s time for the Governor to step in and keep his promise to veto them." Stoller posted a website to send the governor a message if voters were having trouble contacting his office by telephone.

The majority lawmakers revealed new maps on Aug. 30, then revealed a second set of revised maps on Aug. 31, and approved them hours later without thorough review.

Change Illinois asserted that the new maps reduced, from those previously adopted, the number of majority Black voting age population districts and majority Latino voting age population districts, despite Democratic leaders claiming they would honor the state’s diversity.

The Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, a Latino civil rights organization, pursued legal action earlier this year on grounds the maps were based on data from the American Community Survey and not the 2020 census, the Daily Chronicle reported.