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North Carolina's gerrymandered map is unconstitutional, judges rule, and may have to be redrawn

Howard the Duck said:
The court could just draw their own map, or use an old one. There are lots of less than perfect alternatives that are better than what is scheduled to happen that they could choose.

In Pennsylvania? They drew their own map, and it is the map that will be used in November.
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They should refuse to mail out ballots in compliance with the map. Don’t change polling places, declare the court map illegitimate and don’t cooperate. Courts were never intended to be a super legislature
 
EMNofSeattle said:
They should refuse to mail out ballots in compliance with the map. Don’t change polling places, declare the court map illegitimate and don’t cooperate. Courts were never intended to be a super legislature
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North Carolina isn't a mail ballot state like yours. Most voting is done on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November on site.

And there is plenty of room in the local jails for people who are in contempt of court.
 
Howard the Duck said:
North Carolina isn't a mail ballot state like yours. Most voting is done on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November on site.
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Ok, so don’t print compliant ballots for the polling place


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Hawkeye10 said:
Demanding a changing the map a few months before an election would a huge bullet point under OUR GOVERNMENT SUCKS!

This is a completely unreasonable demand, they needed to act with-in reasonable time frames, they need to be reasonable.
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They can redraw boundaries with computers in an hour. It's getting the parties to agree that takes time.

But the larger issue is why should voters go to the polls this November with boundaries that are drawn to have the scale tilted to one party?
 
MTAtech said:
They can redraw boundaries with computers in an hour. It's getting the parties to agree that takes time.

But the larger issue is why should voters go to the polls this November with boundaries that are drawn to have the scale tilted to one party?
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I've felt like that for 30 years in Illinois. But its not Republicans drawing the lines.
 
OpportunityCost said:
I've felt like that for 30 years in Illinois. But its not Republicans drawing the lines.
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It’s wrong either way. I think lines should be drawn as close to uniform squares as possible to avoid politicians picking their voters.
 
MTAtech said:
It’s wrong either way. I think lines should be drawn as close to uniform squares as possible to avoid politicians picking their voters.
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State legislators could fix that issue by defining how the districts are to be drawn.

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trouble13 said:
State legislators could fix that issue by defining how the districts are to be drawn.

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They benefit from the Gerrymandering so why would they?
 
Praxas said:
It's not impossible as they claim, they just don't want to because they know it will hurt them. I've been previously against computer analytic district lines being drawn due to possible corruption from programmer(s), but at this point the state government have proven they are even less reliable to do the right thing (and that includes both sides).
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We shall see.
 
trouble13 said:
State legislators could fix that issue by defining how the districts are to be drawn.
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They could and should -- if they believe in real democracy and not just being self-serving.
 
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