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[-] Isoprenoid@programming.dev 4 points 2 years ago

Thanks for the info, Wikipedia just needs an update.

Since the map had already passed the state Senate on Tuesday, it is now law. (In North Carolina, the governor has no veto power over redistricting.)

I'm not from the US so I didn't understand the importance of these comments. To clarify for others, North Carolina's Senate is currently Republican majority, and the incumbent governor is Democratic (Roy Cooper). My source is still Wikipedia.

The map is an amended version of Proposal CCJ-1, the less aggressively gerrymandered of the two proposals unveiled by Republicans last week.

If you're morbidly curious in seeing the other map proposed, it was CBP-5:

https://ballotpedia.s3.amazonaws.com/images/c/c2/NC_map_1.png

Look at proposed district 3 😂, it's another district that was going to be shaped like a bow-tie.

Source: https://ballotpedia.org/Redistricting_in_North_Carolina_after_the_2020_census

[-] OmnipotentEntity@beehaw.org 3 points 2 years ago

The shittiest thing is that they're not actually good at it. We generally use compactness as a proxy for a gerrymandered district. However, you can effectively gerrymander using extremely compact districts. https://youtube.com/watch?v=Lq-Y7crQo44

This is terrifying, and a strong reason to move to multimember districting.