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Redistricting plan hits bump in the road

Driskill frustrated with conflicts over Northeast Wyoming’s voting district plan

By Sarah Pridgeon

Senator Ogden Driskill was feeling optimistic about the redistricting plan he helped devise for northeast Wyoming, which would have seen both Crook and Weston Counties form the basis of their own voting districts.

That was, he says, until the counties to the south threw a wrench in the works.

Driskill says he was excluded from discussions about redistricting when he was specifically asked not to attend a meeting for Region 7, one of the eight districts into which Wyoming has been divided for the purposes of redistricting.

Region 6 includes Crook along with Weston and Campbell...