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[–] Zuberi@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

On Wednesday, the North Carolina state House passed a new congressional map for the Tar Heel State. Since the map had already passed the state Senate on Tuesday, it is now law. (In North Carolina, the governor has no veto power over redistricting.)

The map is an amended version of Proposal CCJ-1, the less aggressively gerrymandered of the two proposals unveiled by Republicans last week. But it is still heavily skewed toward the GOP: It creates 10 reliably Republican seats, three reliably Democratic seats and one competitive seat in a state that former President Donald Trump carried just 50 percent to 49 percent in 2020. Democratic Reps. Kathy Manning, Wiley Nickel and Jeff Jackson have now been placed in reliably red seats, meaning Republicans will almost certainly pick up three House seats as a result of this map. They could even flip a fourth, Democratic Rep. Don Davis’s 1st District, which this map makes more competitive.

But here: https://davesredistricting.org/maps#viewmap::e595a268-05ce-4400-b7a6-03b9810a7eb1

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[–] Isoprenoid@programming.dev 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Thanks for the info, Wikipedia just needs an update.

Since the map had already passed the state Senate on Tuesday, it is now law. (In North Carolina, the governor has no veto power over redistricting.)

I'm not from the US so I didn't understand the importance of these comments. To clarify for others, North Carolina's Senate is currently Republican majority, and the incumbent governor is Democratic (Roy Cooper). My source is still Wikipedia.

The map is an amended version of Proposal CCJ-1, the less aggressively gerrymandered of the two proposals unveiled by Republicans last week.

If you're morbidly curious in seeing the other map proposed, it was CBP-5:

https://ballotpedia.s3.amazonaws.com/images/c/c2/NC_map_1.png

Look at proposed district 3 😂, it's another district that was going to be shaped like a bow-tie.

Source: https://ballotpedia.org/Redistricting_in_North_Carolina_after_the_2020_census

[–] OmnipotentEntity@beehaw.org 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The shittiest thing is that they're not actually good at it. We generally use compactness as a proxy for a gerrymandered district. However, you can effectively gerrymander using extremely compact districts. https://youtube.com/watch?v=Lq-Y7crQo44

This is terrifying, and a strong reason to move to multimember districting.

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[–] MeowyNinhaj@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 10 months ago

I hate that they can get away with this garbage.