Redistricting battle promotes chaos, a tit for tat chess match

Over the years, I covered more than one effort by the Nebraska Legislature to redraw the boundaries of districts for state legislators and U.S. congressional representatives, among others, due to shifts in the state's population.

Those efforts, according to the State Constitution, always follow the latest U.S. Census, which happens at the beginning of each decade.

There's a lot of data to pour through, and the process, in my opinion, becomes the most partisan exercise in the mostly nonpartisan Unicameral Legislature.

The top priority is redrawing districts so that no sitting state senator woul...