Nc Redistricting News Today

Candidate filing under the revised maps starts this morning.

North Carolina candidates have been welcomed back into election offices to file for this year’s races following a delay that lasted over two months. But in Charlotte, Gov. Roy Cooper said the state needs an independent way to draw political districts.

We're fact-checking a claim by a North Carolina House Democrats' Twitter account that said gerrymandering efforts were "worse" in the state Senate, and attributing some of that to two Republican senators not testifying in a redistricting trial.

Democrats have been promoting an alternative plan they say would keep the Sandhills counties together in one district. Rep. Zack Hawkins, a Durham Democrat, offered that plan up again Thursday and had it shot down on a 51-68 party-line vote.

The North Carolina Senate on Thursday morning released its second new congressional map in as many days. This comes after the state Supreme Court ordered lawmakers to redraw maps they came up with in 2021. Here's a look at how the GOP-led General Assembly is fitting in a new 14th District.

Special masters who will help evaluate new redistricting plans: Former Supreme Court Justices Bob Edmunds and Bob Orr, and former UNC System President Tom Ross, who was previously a Superior Court Judge

The GOP redistricting plans “violate the fundamental rights of millions of North Carolinians,” said an attorney for the plaintiffs.

House bill 605 sped through the legislature in one day and is on its way to Gov. Roy Cooper’s desk. The bill establishes July 26 as the primary runoff date. The candidate filing period would run from March 24 to April 1.

A lawyer representing Common Cause called Tuesday’s ruling disappointing but indicated that an appeal is coming.

A three-judge panel will decide by Jan. 11 if North Carolina's congressional and state legislative maps are unconstitutional gerrymanders