Wording of November 6, 2012 Referrendum 5 (and others)
On October 20, 2011, the Maryland General Assembly passed and Governor Martin O'Malley signed into law Senate Bill 1 to enact Maryland's 2011 Congressional Districts.
http://www.mdp.state.md.us/redistricting/2010/congDist.shtml
An Aug 17, 2012 court decision makes implementation of that law subject to a Yes-No veto referendum, that will now appear on the November 6, 2012 general election ballot.
http://ballotpedia.org/wiki/index.php/Maryland_Redistricting_Referendum_(2012)
On this interative map
- Click Proceed
- Click X to remove the Find District by Address pop-up
(or slide it out of the way) - Click anywhere in the map to ZOOM
- Click-Hold to move the map
Regarding South Laurel
- Click the pop-up button for 2002 Congresional Districts to see how South Laurel has to date been entirely within District 5 (pink).
- Click the pop-up button for Maryland 2011 Congressional Districts to see how the proposed law would split South Laurel across District 5 (pink), and newly interposed District 4 (cyan).
More information can be gleaned from further scrutiny of these district maps.
NB: The maps show only federal, state, and county roads -- not privately maintained neighborhood streets.
