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"Anybody got any idea what the final lineup in the state House is going to be? If the Republicans end up with at least working majorities in the two houses, can they redistrict?"

Gut feeling says that the Republicans will have effective control of the House along with the Conservative Democrats. The Democrats will still control the house as far as the speakership and the committees go.

From what I understand, the Governor-elect can call a special session of the legislature at will and call for redistricting. He pretty much ran on a platform that he would do that. They presumably have the votes in the Senate right now to pass a new redistricting plan that puts geographical areas in the same district, and may have enough to have effective control of the House to redistrict the huge mess that Speaker Murphy and King Roy made with that map.

I lost an incumbent Rupublican State Senator to redistricting. The district is one of the most gerrymandered things you you ever saw. Runs from just south of the square in Roswell, down through Dunwoody, Brookhaven, West Decatur, to south of I-20. It only a few hundred yards wide in places.

I'd love to see a redistricting that puts Bart Ladd back in office.