North Carolina Supreme Court makes a big decision.

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The North Carolina Supreme Court threw out a previous ruling against gerrymandered districting in the state on Friday, and also upheld a photo ID voting law in what is being touted as a victory for Republicans.

The recent partisan gerrymandering ruling from the newly-formed court, in which conservatives have a 5-2 advantage, is expected to simplify the process for the Republican-controlled legislature to assist the GOP in securing additional seats in the U.S. House of Representatives during the upcoming 2024 elections.

When the court leaned Democrat in December, it threw out a state Senate map from the Republican-led state legislature and maintained congressional boundaries that had been drawn up by trial judges.
The ruling in December emerged from a landmark decision in February 2022 that ruled state courts have the ability to throw out district lines that would give an unfair advantage to one political party in a narrowly-divided state......

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/no...-gerrymandered-districts-upholds-voter-id-law
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All jurisdictions that I've ever lived and voted in you had to have photo ID at the polls. I've been voting since the early 70s and mostly lived in Missouri -- a red state.

In our new home, the Free State of Michigan, the citizens voted in 2018 to abolish the gerrymandering mess and create a nonpartisan commission charged with creating voting districts from demographic data rather than party data.

It figures that authoritarians like you and your fellow RWers would rejoice in keeping the ability to manipulate voting districts to favor you... rather than what the citizens want.
 
Soon NC will be solid blue as the metropolitan areas of the state already are, such as Raleigh, Charlotte, Chapel hill etc

The small rural towns are dying off along with the rednecks
 
guno said:
Soon NC will be solid blue as the metropolitan areas of the state already are, such as Raleigh, Charlotte, Chapel hill etc

The small rural towns are dying off along with the rednecks
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I wish for great blueness upon your beautiful state, and that you will someday be as free as the great state of Michigan!
 
ThatOwlWoman said:
All jurisdictions that I've ever lived and voted in you had to have photo ID at the polls. I've been voting since the early 70s and mostly lived in Missouri -- a red state.

In our new home, the Free State of Michigan, the citizens voted in 2018 to abolish the gerrymandering mess and create a nonpartisan commission charged with creating voting districts from demographic data rather than party data.

It figures that authoritarians like you and your fellow RWers would rejoice in keeping the ability to manipulate voting districts to favor you... rather than what the citizens want.
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Ypou mean Michigan where Democrats vote to give China power
 
Guille said:
Yeah, I like her but she's really wrong on Michigan.
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I guess you don't know Democrats in Michigan legislature voted to allow China to build Elecrtric car battery plants in Michigan. Why do they not want US companies to manufacture them?
 
ptif219 said:
I guess you don't know Democrats in Michigan legislature voted to allow China to build Elecrtric car battery plants in Michigan. Why do they not want US companies to manufacture them?
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Actually I do know that. Tell me about Michigan, I'd love to hear it.
 
ptif219 said:
I guess you don't know Democrats in Michigan legislature voted to allow China to build Elecrtric car battery plants in Michigan. Why do they not want US companies to manufacture them?
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Yet not a peep out of you about Subaru, Toyota, Nissan, Honda, Hyundai, VW, Kia, etc. who have done the same thing, whether it's electric batteries or the cars that contain them. Do you think that the Americans who work in these plants care who signs their paychecks? Should Michigan just let other states attract large employers to the detriment of our own citizens?

Toyota, for example, just announced plans to build a $1.29 billion plant in North Carolina that will make batteries for electric vehicles — and create more than 1,700 jobs — starting in 2025.
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ThatOwlWoman said:
All jurisdictions that I've ever lived and voted in you had to have photo ID at the polls. I've been voting since the early 70s and mostly lived in Missouri -- a red state.

In our new home, the Free State of Michigan, the citizens voted in 2018 to abolish the gerrymandering mess and create a nonpartisan commission charged with creating voting districts from demographic data rather than party data.

It figures that authoritarians like you and your fellow RWers would rejoice in keeping the ability to manipulate voting districts to favor you... rather than what the citizens want.
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I'm curious about your opinion on something here........how would you go about creating that nonpartisan comission?
 
SmarterthanYou said:
I'm curious about your opinion on something here........how would you go about creating that nonpartisan comission?
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From the MI website:

Q: What is the citizens redistricting commission?

In November 2018, Michigan voters amended the Constitution with Proposal 18-2 or the "Voters Not Politicians" ballot proposal, a constitutional amendment to "establish a commission of citizens with exclusive authority to adopt district boundaries for the Michigan Senate, Michigan House of Representatives and U.S. Congress, every 10 years." Now, the Michigan constitution empowers an independent commission of citizens to draw district lines for the Michigan Legislature and Michigan's members of Congress for the 2022 election and beyond.

Q: Who serves on the citizens redistricting commission?

The constitutional amendment establishes a commission of 13 registered voters randomly selected through an application process. Of the 13 commissioners, four affiliate with the Democratic Party, four affiliate with the Republican Party, and five do not affiliate with either major political party.
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For us personally, this resulted in our very blue county having a state rep. who is a (D). The red counties in the UP stayed red.
 
ThatOwlWoman said:
From the MI website:



For us personally, this resulted in our very blue county having a state rep. who is a (D). The red counties in the UP stayed red.
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in other words, YOU don't know how.....but you're on board with the MI legislatures simple suggestion of supposedly non partisan people for the sole fact that they are not registered with any major political party.

sorry, that does not guarantee an absolute non partisan board..............
 
SmarterthanYou said:
in other words, YOU don't know how.....but you're on board with the MI legislatures simple suggestion of supposedly non partisan people for the sole fact that they are not registered with any major political party.

sorry, that does not guarantee an absolute non partisan board..............
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Exactly the response I figured. There is no satisfying the paranoid, the suspicious, the biased, the conspiracy theorists.

The entire redistricting process was utterly transparent to the public, which was invited as they went along to submit concerns, comments, ideas, etc. There is no point in giving you MY personal understanding of the process; you would just respond with some derp about how I wasn't involved so have no way of knowing what went on. Hence the official website info provided.

Dismissed.
 
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