Posted on 11/03/2011 1:57:10 AM PDT by ComputerGuy
RALEIGH, N.C. -- North Carolina's journey toward new political boundaries for the Legislature and Congress for the next decade is about to detour again into court.
Civil rights, election reform and union groups are planning to file a lawsuit Friday challenging the recently approved boundaries in state court. The groups' moves come even after the U.S. Justice Department announced late Tuesday it wouldn't object, for now, to the maps based on a portion of the federal Voting Rights Act. North Carolina's redistricting maps are subject to prior approval by the Justice Department or federal courts because of past discrimination.
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Thanks ComputerGuy.
1. What is the rationale for District 12 (west of Raleigh , 200 miles long and maybe 10 miles wide with an isolated inland island)?
2. What is the reason for the District 1 offshoot east of Bertie County across the Chowan River to Elizabeth City?
In other words, are they still gerrymandering?
(/rhetorical question)
That looks more like the current districts than the proposed one.
Pass a constitutional amendment requiring the perimeter of each district to be the smallest length possible to enclose the requisite number of constituents.
Let's just end gerrymandering altogether.
Let San Francisco send a few freaks to Congress, and my rural area will send a good ‘ol boy. That is the sort of representation our Framers set up.
40 to 50 years is enough of the civil rights voting act.
The Union-Democratic party has spent billions rigging the system with same day no proof voting.
The scream discrimination if someone questions them.
In Florida driving is a privilege as is voting. This year they are making all drivers who are up for license renewal to come in and prove who they are and where they live to get a new license and voter id's not a chance.
They want it both ways - don’t water down ‘black’ districts (quotes intentional) by drawing sensible boundaries, but don’t pack them into a black majority district!
The mind boggles.
PS - liberals have no irony gene but ‘election reform’ types protesting a redrawing of districts is rather amusing.
Liberals object to more minority representation. They want the courts to draw more favorable boundaries for them as they did in CO where they got the State Supreme Court to overturn a redistricting plan passed by a GOP legislature. When they can’t win at the ballot box, they get the courts to rewrite the results more to their liking. That’s what we’re seeing happening now in NC. The same old corrupt business of stealing votes and making sure they get counted in the losers’ favor!
NC-12 needs to go.
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