URBANA -- Members of Champaign County's independent redistricting commission voted 9-2 Monday to forward three county board district map proposals to the county board, including one that had been submitted by the local chapter of the NAACP.

The two "no" votes came from two rural members of the commission, public member Diana Herriott and Republican county board member Ron Bensyl.

Commission members also rejected a move to rank the three maps in a preferred order.

A second NAACP map proposal was removed from consideration, as was a map plan that had been submiited by Eric Thorsland, a past Democratic county board candidate from the Mahomet area.

The county board could consider the three map proposals -- known as Plan 1F Revision 1, Plan 3D Revision 1 and NAACP Plan B -- as early as Thursday night.

All of the maps presented can be viewed online. 

One of the three district maps presumably will be chosen by the county board and used to determine the 11 county board district boundaries for the 2012 elections.

There was not unanimity among the 11 redistricting commission members for the three recommended map proposals. NAACP Plan B, for example, was criticized for diluting the rural vote in one of its four designated rural districts. The district takes in a large part of south Champaign, all the way to Kirby Avenue.

But the NAACP plan does include a majority minority district, and two minority influence districts. It splits Champaign and Urbana into several districts, and also places the village of Savoy into two districts.

And Plan 1F was criticized because it splits Mahomet, and divides Urbana into five districts.