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Another lawsuit challenging North Carolina’s latest round of redistricting has been filed. A conservation group, university mathematicians and voters involved in the suit accuse Republican mapmakers of illegal partisan and racial gerrymandering in both the state’s congressional and General Assembly districts.
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North Carolina is facing a legal challenge in state court over its newly drawn maps that heavily favor Republicans heading into the upcoming 2022 midterm elections. An organization formed by prominent Democratic lawyer Marc Elias announced Friday that a group of voters who challenged the constitutionality of previous North Carolina maps will now contest the latest congressional maps.
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In new North Carolina redistricting maps approved Thursday, Mecklenburg County Democratic Sen. Natasha Marcus has been placed into a more conservative district represented by Republican Vickie Sawyer of Iredell County.
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The GOP-majority state legislature has adopted Republican-drawn district maps along party lines.
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On a party-line vote, the full Senate voted for a GOP-drawn map for its 50 districts. Later, a Senate committee approved a map for the House's 120 legislative districts that the House voted for on Tuesday. The House Redistricting Committee also voted on the Senate map approved earlier in the day and the Senate-backed plan to draw district lines for North Carolina's 14 U.S. House seats.
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Advocacy groups and voters have sued to block the North Carolina General Assembly’s timetable to pass new boundaries for legislative seats next week. They say Republicans are breaking rules designed to ensure Black voters can elect their favored candidates.
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North Carolina Republicans will again draw new legislative and congressional maps. Democrats are skeptical whether next year's process will be as transparent as 2019.
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RALEIGH — A North Carolina appeals court panel overturned on Tuesday a court ruling that voided alterations to the state constitution because legislators…
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The last time redistricting was at stake, in 2010, Republicans flipped 20 state legislative chambers from blue to red nationwide, including both houses in…
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RALEIGH — The state of North Carolina must pay over $102,000 to the winning side in a recent legislative redistricting case and the outside expert who…