Experts: Once-a-Decade States Redistricting Process Seeing 'Supercharged Gerrymandering'
Recent redistricting in North Carolina could result in what experts are calling "supercharged gerrymandering," the Associated Press reported.
The Republican-majority state finalized its redistricting process last week, which happens every decade. However, it drew major criticism for the way it divided majority-Democratic cities so that the number of Republican-voting districts could increase. This type of supercharged gerrymandering is said by experts to be the result of fewer legal restraints and higher political stakes.
"In the absence of reforms, the gerrymandering in general has gotten even worse than 2010," said Chris Warshaw, who analyzed redistricting maps across the United States for decades as a political scientist at George Washington University.
Fourteen states have passed new congressional maps, with North Carolina's the most recent. With Republicans controlling the line-drawing process in states that have 187 seats in the House, a surge of gerrymandering could come from the GOP.
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