North Carolina is 40% non-white & 50/50 politically but GOP passed redistricting maps giving white Republicans 71-78% of US House seats
— Ari Berman (@AriBerman) November 5, 2021
This is what gerrymandering looks like under gutted Voting Rights Act & without federal protection for voting rights https://t.co/KTZE3comeg
NC & OH's brutal GOP gerrymanders drive home why redistricting is massively more consequential to partisan outcomes than changes to voting procedures, etc. – even though it gets less attention.
— Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) November 4, 2021
State court decisions over these two maps alone could decide 5-8 House seats.
Breaking: NC Senate passes extreme gerrymandered US House map giving GOP 71-78% of seats in state Trump won with 49.9% of vote
— Ari Berman (@AriBerman) November 2, 2021
Translation: putting this out here now so we can point to it in court later when we get sued by Dems for drawing maps that just happen to be GOP-friendly. https://t.co/w4tko9Ek5b
— Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) August 14, 2021
NORTH CAROLINA: in 2020, Dems scored a huge coup when a state court struck down the GOP's 10R-3D gerrymander and approved a new 8R-5D map (below). But now, Dems' gains are in jeopardy. A thread… pic.twitter.com/5OKtxnE3D6
— Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) August 13, 2021
Sad! 