(Harrisburg) -- A government reform advocate says the approval of a preliminary plan to redraw some state House and Senate districts shows the whole system needs to be changed. The chairman of the redistricting panel called a half-hour recess to get legislative caucus leaders to share their final proposed maps. But Democrats and Republicans still emerged split on their respective plans. Barry Kauffman, head of Common Cause Pennsylvania, calls the panel’s antics a testament to a needed reform of the redistricting process. "Here we have what is really the biggest political power play of the decade being decided by four people who haven’t even seen the maps ‘til half an hour before they need to vote. That’s just an absurd situation. There’s clearly a need to change this whole process," Kauffman says. Kauffman says he also expected the public to get more than two and a half weeks to review the preliminary plan before the first scheduled public hearing. The Senate GOP spokesman says, in the past, redistricting plans haven’t changed much after the first round of maps are approved.