Congressional districts for the 1990s: Florida.Presents two maps which depict new House districts in Florida.EBSCO_AspCongressional Quarterly Weekly Report
However, this is not the major legal point for us to focus on. Its not about Section 2 of the VRA, its about the Fair Districts Amendments. These measures are part of the Florida Constitution, and they incorporated a protection against diminishment of minority voting power, aka retrogression....
Florida's constitution requires districts to not be drawn with "the intent or result of denying or abridging the equal opportunity" of minorities to "participate in the political process or diminish their ability to elect representatives of their choice." The state's supreme court ordered Florida'...
Lewis agreed in July and ruled that the consultants had helped make a "mockery" of the process. He ruled that two of the state's 27 districts were drawn to benefit the GOP. Lewis also stated that once a new map is drawn, he will then consider whether to order a special election for ...
DeSantis Has A Plan To Cram Much Of Florida Into New GOP Districts Two days after Florida’s Republican legislative leaderspublicly announcedthat they would let Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) draw the state’s new congressional map — an unprecedented move in its own right — the governor released a...
2022 MN Map Interestingly, the more moderate to Democratic areas of the 7th are the extreme North and southern Minnesota River Valley counties. That means it is very easy to draw both Walz and Nolan (more likely his successor) districts close to the same DPI they are...
Map makers can begin redistricting but must ensure districts are equal in population size and safeguard voters based on race or ethnicity, per the Voting Rights Act. Depending on the state, additional rules or criteria might be enacted.
In Alabama, GOP lawmakers packed most Black voters into only one of seven congressional districts, even though Blacks make up 27% of the state’s population. In Louisiana, where nearly one-third of the state’s population is Black, GOP lawmakers approved a map containing five majority-white ...
shifts. in most states, lawmakers control the process, allowing them to manipulate districts to create partisan advantage in a practice known as gerrymandering. only four states, including heavily populated florida, have not finalized new congressional maps ahead of november's midterm ...
A coalition of civil rights groups has filed the first lawsuit in Florida against the recently enacted congressional map put forward by GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis that eliminates two districts represented by Black Democrats while giving Republicans the advant