Source: Dawn Baumgartner Vaughan, NEWS & OBSERVER, 10/24/19


Redistricting reform in North Carolina could mean a constitutional amendment decided by voters. That’s in one of three House bills discussed Thursday in committee as state lawmakers chart out a path for how to draw the next round of legislative maps in 2021, using U.S. Census data. The General Assembly had to redraw court-ordered maps earlier this fall after a court ruled Republicans drew previous maps to give themselves an unconstitutionally skewed advantage, The News & Observer previously reported.

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