The redistricting season officially opens in Georgia in November, the day after Georgians go to the polls to cast ballots in some 1,600 municipal elections.
Gov. Brian Kemp signed a proclamation late Thursday to convene a special session on Nov. 3 on redistricting. The session also will deal with other policy and procedural issues.
The process is expected to be arduous — if not politically divisive. The Republican-led legislature will set about redrawing maps in a state that’s decidedly less white, more ethnically diverse and more likely to live in a Craftsman bungalow in Atlanta’s Inman Park than a rural brick ranch in Albany.
