The North Carolina legislature will convene at 1 p.m. on Monday, August 28, to continue working on redistricting. Afterwards, it is hoped that the legislature will work on other bills, including the ballot access bill that has passed both houses, but still needs action from its conference committee because the two versions in each house differ.
The bill to redraw State House districts is HB 927. It hasn’t passed either House but will received a vote in the House on Monday, August 28. The bill to redraw State Senate districts is SB 691. It passed the Senate on Friday, August 25, by 27-16.
Here is a link to legislative webpage that has details about redistricting.
The United Coalition of Candidates continually demonstrates the perfection of pure proportional representation year after year as the solution to gerrymandered districts since August 6th 1995.
Nobody has it as good as the United Coalition:
http://www.international-parliament.org/ucc.html
The district court has set a September 1st deadline for the legislature to redistrict. They had originally ordered new maps to be drawn for a special election in 2017. A special election truncates the terms of those elected in 2016. The SCOTUS slapped down the district court pretty hard, so they are now sulking. Rather than a process that could finish up in November, and might have permitted more measured consideration, the court ordered quick legislative action so that there could be a couple of months of self-serving depositions.
In States where the House/Assembly and Senate districts are not coordinated, it is traditional for each House to handle their own maps, and that the other House does not mess with them. In Texas, the two chambers are at opposite ends of the Capitol, and doormen are stationed so that they can see each other, and the two redistricting bills can be gavelled to passage at the same time.
There are some vetoed bill that need to have the vetoes overridden. I would not put too much hope in any action on the ballot access bill.
ALL GERRYMANDERS — ALL THE TIME —
1/2 OR LESS VOTES X 1/2 GERRYMANDER AREAS =
1/4 OR LESS CONTROL = OLIGARCHY.
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Too many SUPER-MORON lawyers and esp so-called judges to count in the now multi-hundreds (?? thousands) of gerrymander cases since 1962-1964.
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PR and AppV — regardless of ALL math MORONS.
see esp the junk court stuff at —
http://www.ncleg.net/representation/Content/Rulings.aspx
— nonstop ignorance/stupidity about the above 25 percent gerrymander math.
The House passed the House map on 2nd and 3rd reading, and the Senate heard the bill on 1st reading and referred the bill to the redistricting committee. The committee will likely vote the bill out Tuesday.
The Senate passed the Senate map on 3rd reading. Since the Senate met later in the day, the House didn’t have a chance for 1st reading but will probably catch up tomorrow.