Each state draws its own congressional voting district lines. North Carolina draws its State Senate and State House districts at the same time.
In NC, the state legislature draws the voting district maps & the governor cannot veto them.
We have voting districts so that people have a representative to look out for the interests of their particular community.
When politicians manipulate voting districts for their own benefit, they are less responsive to voters & it is harder to hold them accountable.
The above is for your friends who may not know what redistricting or gerrymandering is - I know YOU know.
My grandma always said, "you're not born knowing everything." No one should feel ashamed of not knowing something & its always good to learn new things.😃
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I don't know when that map was uploaded - wasn't there a few days ago. How are regular people supposed to able to stay up with all this in time to meaningfully participate in the process?
The @princetongerry score card gives the #NCGA NC House proposed voting district map an "F"
CBK-3 Draft NC Congressional Map appears to have two of the districts have a Black voting age population (BVAP) of 37% or higher: district 1 (38.87% BVAP) and district 12 (38.01%).
It is disappointing that @AP news uncritically repeated demonstrably false claims by some NC lawmakers that Federal Courts have held that there is no racially polarized voting in North Carolina.
In "Covigton", the Court told NC lawmakers that they should “consider the impact of a districting plan on minority groups, including groups of voters previously subject to race-based discrimination. And . . .
We're uniting virtually to join the #VotingRightsMarch on the 58th anniversary of the historic March on Washington.
As Martin Luther King, Jr. said, “our most urgent request to the president of the United States and every member of Congress is to give us the right to vote.”