Source: Will Doran, NEWS & OBSERVER, 9/16/19

 North Carolina’s new political maps took a key step forward Monday night when the Senate approved its maps, following the House vote Friday. A panel of judges ruled this month that many of the districts used to elect members of the N.C. General Assembly were unconstitutional partisan gerrymanders. They gave the legislature until Wednesday to come up with new, fairer maps. “We have drawn these maps without any consideration of partisan data,” Republican Sen. Ralph Hise of Spruce Pine, the top Senate redistricting official, told his colleagues Monday.

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