RALEIGH — In massive victories for Republicans, the newly GOP-controlled North Carolina Supreme Court on Friday threw out a previous ruling against gerrymandered voting maps and upheld a photo voter identification law that colleagues had […]
RALEIGH — A proposal that would elect North Carolina’s 50 state senators from contiguous two-county districts will be finding its way into legislative discussion this session, according to Rep. Jay Adams (R-Catawba). The proposal, which […]
RALEIGH — North Carolina’s Supreme Court ruled on Friday that state Senate boundaries drawn by Republican legislators — under which the court permitted this year’s elections to be conducted — remain tainted by partisan bias […]
Redistricting is a necessary function of our democratic republic. Gerrymandering is a perversion of a critical self-governance function which distorts the concept of free and fair elections. Massachusetts Gov. Eldridge Gerry, the progenitor of the […]
RALEIGH — In another remapping decision along partisan leanings, the North Carolina Supreme Court has agreed to speed up arguments on further challenges to the boundaries for the state’s legislative seats and congressional districts. By […]
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear a case that could dramatically change the way elections for Congress and the presidency are conducted by handing more power to state legislatures and blocking state courts from […]
The congressional redistricting wars are mostly over. Much of the hoopla surrounding it is proving overheated. Before looking at this cycle’s results, a primer on the subject is in order. The first and most important […]
RALEIGH — An assistant to the Special Masters involved in North Carolina’s 2021 redistricting process is under investigation for data manipulation per a report by The New Jersey Globe. According to that report, Princeton University […]
DENVER — The advantage Democrats gained during the torturous process of rewriting the nation’s congressional maps may be short-lived, creating the potential for more frequent clashes over how political power should be distributed across the […]
RALEIGH — The U.S. Supreme Court denied a motion to stay the court-drawn congressional map that will now be used in the state’s 2022 elections. The court voted to deny the application by a 6-3 […]
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