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The North Carolina legislature has finished new redistricting plans that Republicans contend will meet fairness directives of state justices who struck down previously approved maps as illegal ...
The North Carolina Supreme Court has pushed back the date of the state’s primary election from March to May 2022 in order for the courts to decide whether the Republican-drawn maps for Congress ...
It referenced a 40-year-old provision in North Carolina law that guaranteed transparency around the creation of new district maps, which can determine the balance of political power for a decade.
When a North Carolina state court struck down the state’s legislative political maps nearly two weeks ago, it said the maps had been drawn “with surgical precision” to keep Republicans in ...
The new maps will likely increase Republican political power in North Carolina.That has Democrats and anti-gerrymandering advocates crying foul, accusing the GOP of artificially inflating their ...
In a four-episode 2021 podcast from Under the Dome, we explored how lawmakers draw these maps, their impact on power in North Carolina’s political landscape and how new tools are changing the ...
We look at what North Carolina lawmakers are up to in the rooms where new political maps are being drawn. NC lawmakers are drawing new political maps. The outcome could lead to same old results | WUNC ...
Republicans gained nearly 90,000 votes, as support for third parties surged from 60,000 votes to nearly 200,000 votes. But that did not push North Carolina off the map.
On Thursday, he announced that he would run for attorney general of North Carolina “to fight political corruption,” a label he applied to the gerrymandered maps. Mr. Nickel, who won a close ...
North Carolina Republicans gave final approval Wednesday to new political districts that are likely to hand the party more seats in Congress next year. The state's Democratic governor, Roy Cooper ...
ELIZABETH CITY, N.C. — A former North Carolina Supreme Court justice is leading the latest lawsuit seeking to get the state’s political district maps thrown out. Bob Orr and a group of voters ...
The N&O 2021 podcast Monster: Maps, Math & Power in NC explains how lawmakers draw voting maps, the impact on the state’s political landscape and how new tools detect gerrymandering.