Greensboro, NC -- Taxation without representation, that's what Guilford County Commissioner Kay Cashion says taxpayers in Guilford County could be facing.
Because of redistricting by the N.C. State Legislature, District 6 residents are unsure who their commissioner is.
In the new district plans, districts three and seven will have two commissioners each living in their area until 2014.
The plan is set to go into effect in December. Still, Commissioner Cashion says the legislature isn't giving a clear answer.
Cashion says she's been getting calls from the public. However, she's just as confused as they are.
As it stands, Guilford County has 11 commissioners. The new redistricting plan would cut that down to nine; which means Cashion, who was elected in district six, is now in district three.
District three already has a commissioner. And people who live in district six are wondering if Cashion will now be a commissioner in district three - where she'll be living or if she'll keep her district six constituents until the next elections.
"I'm willing to serve wherever I need to serve, but it would seem that I should be serving the group that elected me in the district where I live," said Cashion.
It gets more complicated. Starting in December, district six as we know it now will not exist. Lawmakers have divided the all district into parts of the new districts.
"They should definitely have a voice. They are citizens of Guilford County and you know, it's basically taxation without representation," Cashion said in a Thursday interview outside a commissioners' meeting.
But Senator Phil Berger, president pro tempore of the North Carolina General Assembly, said "the person representing district six will be the person who is elected to represent district six and that's Ms. Cashion."
So, according Berger, district six will be represented by Cashion even though she'll now live in district three.
Which means, starting in December, some voters will be represented by people they didn't vote for. And for some, commissioners who don't even live in their area. And since the legislature has no scheduled votes until 2014 on this matter, nothing is expected to change.
In a Thursday night twist, the North Carolina chapter of the NAACP filed a lawsuit.
It states, that the redistricting plan "clearly presents a one person, one vote violation for every voter in district 6 who will have no representation, and for every voter in any district that does not have two representatives."