NC lawmakers file their official redistricting plans (spoiler - they suck)

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The public has already seen a handful of potential redistricting maps — which could be used in every North Carolina election from 2022 to 2030 — but on Friday a top redistricting official filed the official bills for maps that whittled down the various options to just one map. Republican Sen. Ralph Hise filed two bills Friday: One for the map that will determine the 50 seats that make up the N.C. Senate, and the other for North Carolina’s 14 seats in the U.S. House of Representatives.

The map for the 120 N.C. House seats should at least be up by Monday, according to a meeting agenda on the legislature’s website, but it could be posted before then, too. The House could also offer a competing version of a congressional map, different from the bill Hise filed Friday.

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Democratic politicians have criticized those draft maps as being heavily gerrymandered — comments echoed by several dozen speakers at public hearings the legislature held last week after posting those drafts for the public to review.

The statewide vote is split almost evenly — in the 2020 presidential race, Republican Donald Trump won just under 50% of the vote and Democrat Joe Biden won just under 49% — but all of the congressional maps that GOP leaders have floated would likely give their party nine, 10 or even 11 of the state’s 14 congressional seats. The map Hise filed Friday was not one of the ones that had previously been shown to the public before the public hearings, although it does appear to be almost identical to one of the maps that was.


https://www.newsobserver.com/news/politics-government/article255390786.html

"The map Hise filed Friday was not one of the ones that had previously been shown to the public before the public hearings, although it does appear to be almost identical to one of the maps that was."

Any surprise at which one? It's virtually identical to the worse (e.g., 11-3) map initially proposed (CBK-3). With the biggest difference being that Butterfield's district will be D+1 instead of R+2. I think he's currently D+5

Here's the proposed map. It doesn't look gerrymandered on its face, but they were very clever around the triad - cracking areas of Democratic strength into four bright red districts.


https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/redistricting-2022-maps/north-carolina/cst_13/

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1. If only we had 50 Democratic Senators who

would take the necessary action to pass voter protections.

Unfortunately, crap like this is the future. Republicon scum will regain control and keep it this time.

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2. Too late at this point

Not only would voting rights legislation be tied up in court for months (if not longer), no court is going to make a state that has already redistricted go back and do it again under the new rules.

The remaining hope in NC (and the other red states that have already drawn new lines or are about to) is that court action will help.

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3. Yeah, I know

It needed to be passed months ago for that exact reason.