Gerrymandering

1 Look at the map.  By what margins did Democrats win in the 3 districts that they won?
10
2. Look at the map.  By what margins did Republicans win in the 9 districts that they won?
20
3. What percent of the votes for Representatives did Republicans and Democrats earn statewide?
48.3 and 50.4
4. What have federal courts said about the district lines in North Carolina?
 federal judges had deemed unconstitutional; those lines were drawn because previous ones had also been deemed unconstitutional.
5. What did Democrats fail to do in both North Carolina and Ohio?
 federal judges had deemed unconstitutional; those lines were drawn because previous ones had also been deemed unconstitutional.
6. Why did Pennsylvania have new districts for this election? What was the result of the House elections in Pennsylvania this year?
Pennsylvania, which voted under a new nonpartisan, court-ordered map, went from 13 Republicans and five Democrats to nine Republicans and nine Democrats. This didn’t quite match the popular vote, which broke for Democrats 55 percent to 45 percent, but the shift underscored that voting lines can matter as much as votes.
8. After the district lines were rejected because they were based on race, what justification was used for the new district lines?
Partisan 
9. How do the district lines counter the large number of Democratic votes in cities like Greensboro, Winston Salem, and Fayetteville?
Of the 57 counties where registered Democrats outnumber Republicans, only 17 have a Democratic representative in Congress. But every county where Republicans outnumber Democrats has a Republican representative.
10. What other laws has North Carolina passed that disenfranchised voters in the state?
In 2013, it passed one of the nation’s most restrictive voter identification laws, which a federal court struck down for targeting African-Americans “with almost surgical precision.” It tried to revoke thousands of voter registrations before the 2016 election, only to be blocked by a judge who called the process “insane.”

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