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Eric Willoughby, a 17-year-old from Huntersville, NC, drove 2.5 hours, to speak out against new maps being crafted outside of public view.
"Be very careful in what you choose to do, because young people like me are watching, and young people are fed up."
#NEW
: GA Sec of State Raffensperger (R) says he will petition the Georgia state legislature to consider switching to Ranked Choice Voting for future elections.
#NEW
: Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D) has introduced HR 622, the REAL House Act, to increase the number of U.S. House seats to 585 following the 2030 Census.
#BREAKING
: A federal judge has ruled that North Dakota's legislative maps dilute the voting power of Native American voters in violation of Section 2 of the VRA.
The North Dakota legislative has until Dec. 22 to adopt a plan to remedy the violation.
After serving on the Wisconsin Supreme Court for 20 years, Justice Patience Roggensack retired on Friday, marking an end to the court’s longtime conservative majority.
#NEW
: The MN legislature has passed an Elections Omnibus bill that does the following:
- Ends prison gerrymandering
- Establishes MN VRA
- Expands polling places
- Combats AI deepfakes in elections
The bill now heads to
@GovTimWalz
for signature:
#BREAKING
: A federal judge has found that Georgia's state legislative and congressional maps violate Section 2 of the VRA.
The court will afford the state an opportunity to enact new plans to comply with the Voting Rights Act.
#BREAKING
: District judge Van Soelen has upheld New Mexico's congressional map.
The court finds that the redistricting plan is not an egregious gerrymander in violation of the NM Constitution.
Judge Janet Protasiewicz will take her seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court on August 1.
The first case to come across the bench might be one on redistricting.
#NEW
: Three Oregon senators — two Republicans and one independent - have reached 10 unexcused absences. Under voter-approved Measure 113, they are now ineligible to run for reelection.
Oregon Republicans say they plan to challenge the measure in court.
#BREAKING
: The NY Court of Appeals has ordered a new New York Congressional Map.
The Court directs the NY Redistricting Commission to submit a map to the legislature, on the earliest possible date, but no later than Feb. 24.
#NEW
: The OR legislature has passed legislation to adopt Ranked-Choice Voting for congressional and statewide races in Oregon.
The proposal will now go before voters on the November 2024 ballot.
New York Democrats are rejecting the congressional maps drawn by the independent redistricting commission after rejecting the maps drawn by an independent special master.
They plan to gerrymander the maps even after New Yorkers said NO in two referendums.
Corrupt.
#NEW
: The OH Ballot Board has re-approved the Ohio Independent Redistricting Ballot Initiative as one issue.
The group Citizens Not Politicians can now begin the process of collecting signatures to get the initiative on the 2024 ballot.
#BREAKING
: The Wisconsin Supreme Court has denied the request to reopen the congressional redistricting lawsuit. The map will stay in place for the 2024 election.
Andrew Yang and the Forward Party opted out of commenting on Alabama’s Redistricting Special Session despite independent redistricting being one of the party’s three policy platforms.
#BREAKING
: The OH Supreme Court has struck down the latest state legislative redistricting plans.
The OH Redistricting Commission will have until Feb 17. to adopt new maps.
#BREAKING
: Citizens Not Politicians gets the green light to start signature collection to put an Independent Redistricting Commission on the ballot in Ohio.
The group needs to collect 413,487 signatures from at least 44 counties by July 3, 2024.
#NEW
: Gov. Kathy Hochul and AG Letitia James have filed their Amicus Brief in the NY congressional redistricting case.
The lawsuit which challenges New York's congressional map on procedural grounds will be heard by the NY Court of Appeals on Nov. 15.
#NEW
: The WI Supreme Court rules that Wisconsin's legislative maps are unconstitutional and has ordered new lines for 2024.
The court will give legislature and governor an opportunity to enact new maps. If not, the court will draw new redistricting plans.
In 10 days, Judge Janet Protasiewicz will take her seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court.
One of the first cases to come across the bench is likely to be on redistricting.
#NEW
: Maine legislature passes legislation to hold a statewide referendum this fall to let voters decide if they want to keep the current state flag or replace it with a design based on the 1901 state flag.
#NEW
: Organizations begin gathering the first 1000 signatures needed to start the ballot initiative process for creating an Independent Redistricting Commission in Ohio.
#NEW
: Voters have filed a petition with the WI Supreme Court seeking to stop the Wisconsin Legislature from conducting impeachment proceedings against Justice Janet Protasiewicz.
You can drive 4 minutes (or 20 minute run) through this part of Millcreek, UT an be in ALL FOUR of Utah's congressional districts.
In 2021, Utah lawmakers cracked salt lake county between four districts.
Me: Fort Lauderdale is a bigger city than I thought.
Uber Driver: Yeah, a lot of people are moving to Florida we actually just gained a district in reapportionment.
Me: 😮😯💥
#NEW
: Ryan Newman, General Counsel to Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, has submitted a draft congressional map on behalf of the Executive Office of the Governor.
Advocates and the public can view the redistricting plan here:
OH Redistricting Commission: Drawing a fair state legislative map is extremely complicated.
Election Twitter Teens: I can have that map for you in an hour.
#BREAKING
: A federal judge has ordered the creation of four Native American majority voting districts for Thurston County, Nebraska.
Thurston County settled with the Winnebago Tribe and the Omaha Tribe to redraw the Board of Supervisors map.
#BREAKING
: A federal lawsuit has been filed arguing that Tennessee's state Senate and congressional maps are unconstitutional racial gerrymanders in violation of the 14th and 15th Amendments.
Democrats and Republicans will face off tonight in the annual congressional baseball game.
Here is where the players hail from!🗺️⚾️
The full 2023 Team Rosters:
After her term ends on Dec. 31, Chief Justice Maureen O'Connor states that she hopes to get involved in putting an independent redistricting commission on the ballot in Ohio.
Ohio’s current system of drawing legislative and congressional maps clearly failed, and it should be fixed by removing elected officials from the process, Gov. Mike DeWine said this week.
#BREAKING
: The New Hampshire Supreme Court has taken over congressional redistricting.
The NH Supreme Court will appoint Nate Persily as special master.
#NEW
: Louisiana Secretary of State and Louisiana lawmakers have notified the court in the Louisiana legislative redistricting case that they are challenging the constitutionality of Section 2 of the VRA.
They will submit a copy of the notice to the Department of Justice.
#NEW
: The US Supreme Court has been asked to take action and/ or review redistricting lawsuits involving:
- Arkansas Congressional
- South Carolina Congressional
- Alabama Congressional
#NEW
: The Florida Supreme Court has turned down a request from Gov. DeSantis for an advisory opinion on the constitutionality of redistricting congressional district 5.
#NEW
: The New York Assembly and Senate has passed the Congressional Map proposed by NY Democrats.
The redistricting plan now heads to Gov. Kathy Hochul for action.
#NEW
: The US Supreme Court has been asked to take action and/ or review redistricting lawsuits involving Arkansas Congressional, South Carolina Congressional, and Miami City Commission maps.
#BREAKING
: The US Supreme Court has issued an order sending the lawsuit challenging Ohio's congressional map back to the OH Supreme Court for further consideration in light of Moore V. Harper.
On August 1, Judge Janet Protasiewicz will take her seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court at which point we expect new movement on Wisconsin's redistricting maps.