Yakima County will not pursue any changes to a redistricting map that’s part of a settlement it entered with OneAmerica over alleged Voting Rights Act violations. A Seattle lawyer representing ...

The final map must be approved by a judge before it is released, but that process was delayed by a proposal from Yakima County to adjust district boundaries depending on who wins the District 3 seat.

Lasnik’s March 15 order adopted a map provided by the plaintiffs in ... in eastern Washington were redistricted out of Yakima County.” Now there are four Hispanic legislators in eastern ...