The Democrats pulled a fast one with this. The AZ voters approved the plan, sponsored by Republicans based on the idea of fairness.
A third of the commission was to be Republican, a third Democrat, and a third “Independent”. But the Democrats changed their party affiliation to Independent, so now two thirds of the commission is Democrat, in a majority Republican state.
And the commission gerrymanders like crazy to take power from the Republicans and give it to the Democrats.
As I understand it, the commission consists of two Republicans, two Democrats, and a chairman elected by those four.
Thank you for confirming my suspicions that democraps/liberals poisoned the original intent of this law.