No Scalia, so North Carolina must redraw districts

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The United States Supreme Court declined late Friday to stay a lower court ruling that has forced North Carolina’s Republican-dominated legislature to redraw its congressional electoral maps on the grounds that the original maps amounted to racial gerrymandering.

As a result, the state must now follow a contingency plan, also devised by Republican lawmakers, that tries to comply with the lower court’s ruling by making significant changes to the boundaries of the some of the state’s 13 congressional districts.

The changes take effect less than one month before the originally scheduled March 15 primary, which has forced the legislature to set up a second election dedicated exclusively to the congressional primaries, which will now take place June 7.

The contingency plan was approved by the state legislature on Friday, hours before the Supreme Court announced that it had rejected North Carolina Republicans’ application for a stay.

North Carolina now faces a chaotic situation just when some voters have already begun sending in absentee ballots under the old congressional districting scheme.

Barring some other intervention by the courts, a congressional primary will take place on June 7, and the previously established March 15 primary date would still go forward for the presidential race and other contests.

More than 2,000 residents who have already turned in absentee ballots to the state board of elections will not have their votes counted in the congressional races, although they would be free to vote again in the June 7 race.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/20/us/north-carolina-fights-over-its-election-rules.html?_r=0

 

[CFM]

The United States Supreme Court declined late Friday to stay a lower court ruling that has forced North Carolina’s Republican-dominated legislature to redraw its congressional electoral maps on the grounds that the original maps amounted to racial gerrymandering.

As a result, the state must now follow a contingency plan, also devised by Republican lawmakers, that tries to comply with the lower court’s ruling by making significant changes to the boundaries of the some of the state’s 13 congressional districts.

The changes take effect less than one month before the originally scheduled March 15 primary, which has forced the legislature to set up a second election dedicated exclusively to the congressional primaries, which will now take place June 7.

The contingency plan was approved by the state legislature on Friday, hours before the Supreme Court announced that it had rejected North Carolina Republicans’ application for a stay.

North Carolina now faces a chaotic situation just when some voters have already begun sending in absentee ballots under the old congressional districting scheme.

Barring some other intervention by the courts, a congressional primary will take place on June 7, and the previously established March 15 primary date would still go forward for the presidential race and other contests.

More than 2,000 residents who have already turned in absentee ballots to the state board of elections will not have their votes counted in the congressional races, although they would be free to vote again in the June 7 race.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/20/us/north-carolina-fights-over-its-election-rules.html?_r=0

Yet one district in my state was drawn on purpose with a black majority and race in mind. So typical of that kind. They have no problem expecting to be treated a certain way they say is wrong in other situations. It's the ONLY reason a black can get elected to the House and it had to be created that way. No district would ever elect the one from it unless it was purposely set up for one to win. How sad it must be to know that the system has to be rigged for a black to win.

 

[The Dude]

Rofl

 

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Scalia's death is already causing the racist right headaches.