Source: WINSTON-SALEM, 6/6/19

In litigation over North Carolina's legislative districts, Democrats and election reform advocates contend documents from a Republican redistricting expert show lawmakers misled judges about whether special elections should have been held in 2017 under new district lines. The charges came as lawyers in the partisan gerrymandering lawsuit now fight over how tens of thousands of files from longtime GOP mapmaker Thomas Hofeller could be used in a trial scheduled next month. Hofeller died last year, but his estranged daughter told the group Common Cause North Carolina about his files, leading its lawyers to subpoena them.

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