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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsOnce more, NC lawmakers reject chance to create fair maps
http://www.ncpolicywatch.com/2017/08/28/nc-lawmakers-reject-chance-create-fair-maps/This month, North Carolina lawmakers had a golden opportunity to adopt fair, nonpartisan standards for drawing new legislative voting districts. Instead, they opted for politics as usual, keeping partisanship at the core of a deeply flawed redistricting process.
The General Assembly has been ordered by a federal court to redraw dozens of racially gerrymandered legislative districts. This latest round of redistricting comes roughly 18 months after the legislature faced a separate court order to redraw racially gerrymandered congressional districts. Sadly, this is just the latest in a long line of lawsuits and controversies caused by gerrymandering in our state.
And so, the GOP-led legislature had in its hands a chance to finally end the cycle of gerrymandering by listening to the overwhelming majority of North Carolina citizens who want fair and impartial standards for creating our voting districts. Instead, the Republican majority rejected nonpartisan redistricting criteria, guaranteeing that new legislative districts will be blatantly gerrymandered, just as the old maps were.
Thats because the district lines are being manipulated with an eye toward past election results. Its the key ingredient for creating gerrymandered maps that provide maximum advantage to the party in power.
How regrettable.
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Once more, NC lawmakers reject chance to create fair maps (Original Post)
G_j
Aug 2017
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(40,372 posts)1. NC, scathing take on GOP maps; calls on courts to flush this stink
NC, scathing take on GOP maps; calls on courts to flush this stink
http://pulse.ncpolicywatch.org/2017/08/25/editorial-issues-scathing-take-gop-maps-calls-courts-flush-stink/
In case you missed it yesterday morning, an editorial in the Wilmington StarNews pulled no punches in describing the latest partisan gerrymander concocted by Republicans at the General Assembly. This is from New districts; same old political manipulation:
Voting analysts watching the results say that most of these districts will lean Republican, even though North Carolina as a whole is very balanced. As of Aug. 19, of the states 6,777,881 registered voters, 2,640,045 are Democrats; 2,054,423 are Republicans; and 2,050,096 are unaffiliated.
If adopted, these districts all but guarantee that the GOP will continue to have veto-proof majorities in both houses of the General Assembly.
To achieve this required some computer legerdemain and tricky penciling. Larger urban areas, where Democrats voting strength resides, were horribly carved up.
On the House map, Cumberland County (Fayetteville) looks as if bread mold is growing across it. Wake County (Raleigh) looks like a childs connect-the-dots puzzle. It will be hard for any challengers to build up an organization among these political crazy quilts.
But this is what happens when politicians get to draw their own districts.
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If adopted, these districts all but guarantee that the GOP will continue to have veto-proof majorities in both houses of the General Assembly.
To achieve this required some computer legerdemain and tricky penciling. Larger urban areas, where Democrats voting strength resides, were horribly carved up.
On the House map, Cumberland County (Fayetteville) looks as if bread mold is growing across it. Wake County (Raleigh) looks like a childs connect-the-dots puzzle. It will be hard for any challengers to build up an organization among these political crazy quilts.
But this is what happens when politicians get to draw their own districts.
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