Danbury officials are looking to clean up voting precincts in the City based on new state General Assembly maps drawn up by a legislative Reapportionment Committee, based on 2020 census data. 

The Danbury group includes two Republicans and two Democrats.  The committee couldn't agree on a tie-breaking 5th member.  They held several meetings to try to come up with someone they hoped would be non-political, preferably a woman since the committee is all male. 

The panel is an advisory group for the City Council, which will take their proposed map under consideration.  At least three of the four members need to agree on the plan submitted to the Council. Danbury has seven wards, and some include multiple state House Districts. 

Committee Chair Mike Safranek wants to start by looking at the precincts where there were are a couple hundred or fewer voters and better align those polling locations.  He says that will cut down on costs because they won't have to have separate poll workers and machines to tally the different ballots.

The committee is also looking to purchase a software program to help draw the new voting lines.