Source: Erika Williams, COURTHOUSE NEWS, 7/17/19

With the fate of North Carolina’s voting districts on the line, objections to evidence from a deceased mapmaker’s files dominated the third day of a trial on claims of unconstitutional partisan gerrymandering by Republican lawmakers. A vacationer traversing the stretch from South Charlotte toward North Carolina’s coast might tire before reaching Bladen County —the opposite end of the same congressional district. The state’s 9th Congressional District is currently in the throes of a new election ordered by a state board after ballot fraud allegations...

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