redistricting

A judge is ordering Georgia to draw new congressional and state legislative maps after finding the current maps illegally discriminate against Black voters.

Republican-drawn maps entrenched that party’s power in the State House following the 2020 census. Democrats want the courts to step in and say a line was crossed.

The new state Senate map seems poised to perpetuate the existing pro-Republican tilt of the current map — and could crank it up even further.

Bedford and Hinsdale seem to have little in common on paper, but on Election Day, they’ll find themselves yoked together in a newly drawn State House district, the two opposite poles of the new state Senate District 9.

The plaintiffs argued that districts designed to favor Republican candidates infringed on free speech rights.

The court-approved map moves five small towns, resulting in a balanced population between the districts.

The court's map would move just five towns to a new district: Albany, Campton, Jackson, New Hampton and Sandwich.

State Legislatures are tasked with redrawing legislative boundaries every 10 years based on the decennial Census.

The GOP-controlled Legislature and Sununu must agree on a map soon to avoid the N.H. Supreme Court imposing its own.

The latest map, first released Friday, would put the state's two incumbent members of Congress, Democrats Chris Pappas and Annie Kuster, in the same district.