LEXINGTON, Ky. — A motion by the Kentucky Democratic Party and Democratic voters in Franklin County to block new, Republican-drawn redistricting maps from taking effect was denied by Franklin Circuit Judge Thomas Wingate on Thursday.
However, the judge also kept the case alive in his court by denying Secretary of State Michael Adams’ motion to dismiss the complaint against the maps. Democrats across the state and in Frankfort have decried the new House and U.S. Congressional District maps – those two, not the new Senate map, are being challenged – as both unfair to the scores of voters who vote for Democrats in statewide elections and potentially unconstitutional because of a requirement that map-drawers minimally split counties.
In his orders, Wingate set a full hearing on the matter for March 1.
