Source: Mitch Kokai, NC POLITICAL NEWS, 9/3/21


The legislative committees charged with drawing North Carolina's new congressional and legislative election maps will take public comment at 13 different hearings during the next month. Participating lawmakers will head as far east as Elizabeth City and as far west as Cullowhee. The first hearing is scheduled Wednesday, Sept. 8, in Caldwell County. "By the conclusion of the process, a public hearing will have occurred in each of the state's current congressional districts," according to a news release from Sen. Ralph Hise, R-Mitchell, co-chairman of the Senate's redistricting committee.

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