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Democrats want to move the redrawing of Virginia’s House of Delegates map from the Capitol to the courthouse.

Gov. Ralph Northam said Friday in a letter to Speaker of the House Kirk Cox, R-Colonial Heights, that he believes the legislative redistricting process “has reached an impasse.”

The governor and House Democratic leaders said it is now time to let the three judges who ruled that 11 House districts were unconstitutional redraw the boundaries in time for the 2019 elections.

“I see no reason to delay a court-drawn remedy where all signs indicate that the General Assembly will not enact a constitutional map by the current October 30 deadline,” Northam wrote to the speaker.

During the special session that Northam called Aug. 30, Democrats proposed a map that would alter 29 districts in order to fix the 11 that the court said were racially gerrymandered. House Republicans dismissed the map as a partisan gerrymander.

Parker Slaybaugh, a spokesman for Cox, said Friday that “the speaker has not heard from the governor in a month, so he is surprised and disappointed by this letter.”