Orange County Residents Speak Out on Draft Legislative Map at Public Hearing

Orange County Residents Speak Out on Draft Legislative Map at Public Hearing
New York state Assemblyman Chris Eachus speaks at a public hearing on a draft county legislative map in Goshen, N.Y., on Aug. 27, 2024. Cara Ding/The Epoch Times
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Residents from different parts of Orange County, New York, spoke their minds on a draft county legislative map during an Aug. 27 public hearing in Goshen.

Most comments centered around the importance of keeping similar communities together and not splitting up municipalities when redrawing the map, a process that, per federal and state laws, repeats every 10 years following the decennial U.S. Census.