Assembly Democrats on Tuesday laid out a set of proposals they say would restore principles of democracy undermined by the Legislature's Republican majority.

"Good policy doesn’t happen without good government," said Assembly Minority Leader Gordon Hintz, D-Oshkosh, in a news conference highlighting the measures, most of which are unlikely to find support in the Republican-led Legislature.

Democrats said the bills they're proposing would give Wisconsin a "fresh start" after eight years of Republican control of the legislative and executive branches. While Republicans retained strong majorities in both chambers of the Legislature in the 2018 election, voters chose Democratic Gov. Tony Evers over former Republican Gov. Scott Walker on Nov. 6.

With the next set of legislative electoral maps set to be drawn in 2021, state Sen. Dave Hansen, D-Green Bay, argued Democrats and Republicans should come together now to change the state's redistricting process, putting it in the hands of a nonpartisan board rather than partisan elected officials.

"It is the time to take action to guarantee that no party will have the power to rig the legislative elections like we’ve seen these past eight years," Hansen said.