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The new redistricted congressional and legislative maps passed by our legislature are not surprising to those who have followed this hyper partisan General Assembly.
Published: Thursday, November 16th, 2023 @ 1:50 am
By: Tom Campbell
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The three masters charged N.C. taxpayers $690 an hour for their work on maps.
Published: Monday, July 4th, 2022 @ 8:37 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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We will offer this allotment of three with more to come; some old, most new, but all quite informative, and, moreover, necessary to understanding that in North Carolina, there is a wiser path to govern ourselves and our People.
Published: Wednesday, December 1st, 2021 @ 1:00 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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As the N.C. House passed its new election maps Tuesday, Nov. 2, the Senate followed suit Wednesday, Nov. 3, passing new maps with a vote along party lines, 26-19.
Published: Sunday, November 28th, 2021 @ 8:07 am
By: Carolina Journal
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On Tuesday, November 2, The N.C. House voted along party lines in favor of its new House election district map, while the N.C. Senate approved new congressional maps.
Published: Friday, November 26th, 2021 @ 6:37 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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When drawing congressional and legislative district maps, can we be assured of fair and impartial elections just because lawmakers didn’t use racial or partisan factors in drawing districts?
Published: Wednesday, November 10th, 2021 @ 8:30 am
By: Tom Campbell
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The N.C. House committee charged with drawing new state election maps will start the formal map-drawing process Wednesday morning. Members can work on maps from 9 a.m. to as late as 5 p.m. each weekday until the process is complete.
Published: Tuesday, November 9th, 2021 @ 1:04 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Complaints on social media from a left-wing redistricting activist are drawing fire from a state Senate redistricting leader. He accuses the activist of “begging” people to deliver her scripted remarks during public hearings.
Published: Monday, November 1st, 2021 @ 2:33 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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single maps for NC House and Senate; 5 options for Congress
Published: Monday, October 25th, 2021 @ 6:58 pm
By: John Steed
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N.C. House and Senate committees officially adopted criteria for drawing legislative and congressional districts for the next decade.
Published: Friday, August 27th, 2021 @ 11:38 am
By: Carolina Journal
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A 2,367 square-foot house, built about 2016, sits deep in the woods off Poplar Hill Road east of Fayetteville.
Published: Thursday, September 3rd, 2020 @ 12:48 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The state House has passed a new congressional map, giving Democrats a better chance to pick up U.S. House seats in 2020, based on recent voting history.
Published: Thursday, November 21st, 2019 @ 9:56 am
By: Carolina Journal
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N.C. Supreme Court rejects call to review legislative districts, so they're set for next year's election
Published: Wednesday, November 20th, 2019 @ 10:19 am
By: Carolina Journal
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North Carolina’s 2020 election maps created by House members may not stand up to court scrutiny.
Published: Saturday, October 5th, 2019 @ 10:15 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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We've been hearing a lot about "redistricting" lately.
Published: Thursday, October 3rd, 2019 @ 11:41 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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North Carolina’s voter map drama turned more theatrical, as state senators literally rolled out a lottery machine to randomly select their starter map.
Published: Saturday, September 14th, 2019 @ 7:50 am
By: Carolina Journal
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A three-judge N.C. Superior Court panel’s ruling Tuesday, Aug. 3, in Common Cause v. Lewis will force the N.C. General Assembly to redraw state House and Senate election maps.
Published: Tuesday, September 10th, 2019 @ 2:42 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The Republican-led N.C. General Assembly must draw new state House and Senate district maps, a court has ruled.
Published: Saturday, September 7th, 2019 @ 2:20 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Debate got testy Friday, April 27, as the Joint Select Committee on Judicial Reform and Redistricting discussed two House-passed bills awaiting action in the Senate
Published: Tuesday, May 8th, 2018 @ 9:07 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Chairmen of the N.C. House and Senate redistricting committees are taking aim at the Stanford law professor who is redrawing legislative election maps under the order of a three-judge federal panel
Published: Saturday, December 2nd, 2017 @ 2:03 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Republicans want to protect their supermajority in the General Assembly. No surprise there
Published: Sunday, October 29th, 2017 @ 5:27 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Republican legislators have generated criticism for ignoring voters' race when drawing North Carolina's latest congressional and legislative election maps
Published: Thursday, October 19th, 2017 @ 2:00 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The House and the Senate finally passed redistricting maps after weeks of contentious committee meetings and public hearings
Published: Tuesday, September 12th, 2017 @ 2:16 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The Senate Redistricting Committee made a few tweaks to redrawn Senate maps, including an incumbent protection amendment for a Democrat, but otherwise passed the documents intact
Published: Saturday, August 26th, 2017 @ 8:38 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Lawmakers won't consider race when they redraw legislative maps to meet a Sept. 1 federal court deadline
Published: Thursday, August 17th, 2017 @ 9:33 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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A three-judge federal panel has denied a request to force a special N.C. legislative election before regularly scheduled 2018 contests
Published: Wednesday, August 2nd, 2017 @ 5:13 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The term “efficiency gap” generates a buzz among those who want the federal courts to scrap partisan electoral gerrymandering
Published: Wednesday, August 2nd, 2017 @ 9:01 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Attorneys for legislative Republican leaders endured a barrage of questions and comments from a three-judge federal court panel over lawmakers' failure to remap 28 unconstitutionally drawn legislative districts
Published: Saturday, July 29th, 2017 @ 9:30 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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As state lawmakers returned home for a brief summer break, some members and their staffs were awaiting court orders outlining new General Assembly districts after federal judges declared the current map unconstitutional and racially gerrymandered
Published: Thursday, July 6th, 2017 @ 10:19 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Two House bills intended to reduce partisan manipulation of legislative redistricting could be acted on in the short session starting in April, though retiring Sen. Bob Rucho, R-Mecklenburg, predicted the Senate would not approve either.
Published: Monday, January 11th, 2016 @ 12:07 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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