Lawmakers come to Lafayette to listen, voters ask if rigged redistricting in the cards, anyway

Lawmakers spent Day 1 of a two-day redistricting tour of the state getting grilled by constituents in Lafayette who warned them not to rig congressional and General Assembly districts

The Indiana General Assembly’s two-day redistricting tour of public hearings across the state started at Ivy Tech in Lafayette Friday. (Photo: Dave Bangert)

If there was much trust in the room that the Indiana General Assembly’s Republican supermajority would resist a temptation to redraw congressional and state legislative maps to guarantee dominance fo…