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Assertions. and i was sitting in the audience when they said this over and over again. this was going to be the most open and transparent redistricting process the state had ever seen. so he very kindly made note of the fact that the plaintiffs and league of women voters and other organizations worked so hard to draw the curtain back and make sure that the people of florida could see that there was a shadow process going on despite all this talk of openness and transparency and public input. >> yeah, and i think in that respect, the state has done something important. the league has obviously ...

Operatives to conduct an elaborate astroturf campaign trying to make it look like ordinary citizens just happened to back those suspicious district maps that favored the gop and how operatives wrote scripts for people to attend public hearings and said, yeah, they wanted the gop-friendly maps and then later legislators destroyed e-mails and other evidence of communication regarding the redistricting process. judge lewis ruled that because of all this, those two politically gerrymandered districts, district 5 and 10, have to be redrawn, which means other districts around the area might also hav...

Audience when they said this over and over again. this was going to be the most open and transparent redistricting process the state had ever seen. so he very kindly made note of the fact that the plaintiffs and league of women voters and other organizations worked so hard to draw the curtain back and make sure that the people of florida could see that there was a shadow process going on despite all this talk of openness and transparency and public input. >> yeah, and i think in that respect, the state has done something important. the league has obviously been enforcing it which is people fee...

If the decision is upheld by the state supreme court, the districts will have to be redrawn from scratch. judge terry lewis wrote the case goes to the very foundation of our representative democracy, quoting george washington's warning against cunning, ambitious, unprincipled men. he found that political consultants or operatives conspired to influence the redistricting process. the push back against a practice as old as our democracy, gerrymandering, didn't materialize overnight. they voted for amendment to the state constitution that required district boundaries to be fair and as equal in po...

Like this one, the width of a highway bridge. a move opponents claim was designed to make surrounding districts friendlier to republicans. once they were done and dismissed republican consultants that helped them, they destroyed most documents related to the redistricting process. as judge lewis wrote yesterday, you have to wonder, indeed, you do. joining me now, editor at large of salon, joan walsh, host joy reed. joy, florida export, electoral expert, political expert you are, this goes back to 2010. >> yeah. >> and the fact that a group called fair districts florida, a grass roots group was...