Wisconsin adopts new legislative maps, giving Democrats chance to win state
Source: The Guardian
The Wisconsin governor, Tony Evers, has signed into law a pair of new state legislative maps, undoing a Republican gerrymander that has shaped Wisconsin politics for more than a decade and giving Democrats a chance at winning control of the state in future elections.
Its a new day for Wisconsin, said Evers at a press conference on Monday to cheers from a room of anti-gerrymandering activists.
His signature likely marks the end of a protracted fight over Wisconsins legislative lines and greatly reduces the Republican bias baked into the current maps. Republicans have enjoyed unchallenged control over the state assembly and senate for more than a decade because of legislative maps they drew to ensure that they would have large majorities in both chambers even in years Democrats won the majority of votes statewide.
The new maps are the result of a December ruling from the Wisconsin supreme court that the current state assembly and senate maps are unconstitutional. The court ordered the state to adopt new legislative maps before the 2024 election. Evers, lawmakers in both parties and multiple outside groups submitted revised maps to the court for consideration. After consultants hired by the court to review them said that the maps drawn by the Republican lawmakers maintained their partisan gerrymander and do not deserve further consideration, Republicans lawmakers decided to adopt the maps Evers had proposed which give them a slight edge at maintaining their majorities rather than roll the dice on court-drawn maps that could benefit Democrats even more.
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wolfie001
(2,252 posts)Boom!!!
Grins
(7,218 posts)Despite court orders they did it anyway. And again. If you didn't see it last night on "60-Minutes," find it and watch the segment on the fake electors in Wisconsin.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,349 posts)Tetrachloride
(7,847 posts)not enough detail
republianmushroom
(13,614 posts)brooklynite
(94,594 posts)ananda
(28,866 posts)Well done!
mysteryowl
(7,390 posts)"Free and fair elections"
maxsolomon
(33,345 posts)Repukes had a plan to Gerrymander with that Tea Party crap, and it worked.
Dominating WI for 2 decades-plus was the fruit.
Jimbo S
(2,958 posts)Those of us in Wis feel this map is the same as the "lesser of two evils" map that Ever proposed a year or two ago. Doesn't go far enough.
I wonder what the courts would have agreed upon, if given the chance.