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NC three-judge panel lets GOP-drawn voting maps stand
RALEIGH — A three-judge panel issued a judgment Monday saying that while race played a role in the mapping of North Carolina’s legislative and congressional voting districts in 2011, Republican leaders were within bounds in creating the districts.
The 171-page judgment comes nearly a month and a half after the three Superior Court judges from across the state heard testimony about the districts – Senate Districts 31 and 32 in Yadkin and Forsyth counties; House Districts 51 and 54 in Lee and Chatham counties; the 4th Congressional District in the eastern Piedmont; and 12th District stretching from Charlotte to Winston-Salem and Greensboro.
Democratic voters and civil rights and voting advocacy groups contend those districts and others across the state are racial gerrymanders designed to reduce the political influence of black voters and should be struck down.
Attorneys for GOP legislative leaders and mapmakers contend that lawmakers followed legal requirements laid out by the Supreme Court when shaping the districts. Political partisanship played into their mapmaking, they acknowledged, but they argued that race was not a major principle in guiding the shapes and forms of the districts
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