North Carolina lawmakers gave final approval Wednesday to a revised U.S. House map backed by President Donald Trump that is intended to help Republicans win an additional seat in next year’s elections.
The new congressional map reshapes the state’s only current swing district, held by Democratic U.S. Rep. Don Davis, by adding more Republican-leaning voters along the coast and shifting some inland voters into an adjacent Republican-held district.
While the GOP already controls 10 of the 14 House districts in North Carolina — a state Trump won by 51% last year — the revised map satisfies the president’s call for GOP-led states to secure more congressional seats for the party nationwide.
The revised districts cannot be vetoed by Democratic Gov. Josh Stein, though a legal challenge by Democrats or civil rights groups is likely.
The administration most recently pushed for similar redistricting efforts in Indiana, but the state’s Senate does not have the votes to pass a new congressional map, according to a spokesperson for Indiana Senate Republican Leader Rodric Bray.
Fascists being fascist; when propaganda isn’t enough to swing the vote, they just gerrymander it their way instead.
We need to turn out the vote in that new district. The maps they drew were based on voting and registration data from past elections. If you add a massive amount of new voters in the district, you basically throw a giant fucking wrench in their plan, because they pushed for the change based on old data and ‘known unknowns’.
It’s what we need to do in every gerrymandered district. Also, play hardball. Sign up to drive a voting shuttle from conservative nursing homes and elderly communities to the poles, then don’t show up, or show up really late and then have the vehicle ‘breakdown’ before you can get there.
Also push to have local polling places changed at the last minute. The elderly are people of habit. If they show up to vote at the same place they’ve voted for 30 years and it’s not open, they’ll probably just go home.
Also if the power were to go out at certain polling places right before election hours, that would reek havoc. A mass influx of police calls could also keep officers so busy they don’t have time to vote.
Let’s get creative. Flip their fuck stick around and use the business end on them