Legally, the state legislature in most states draws the lines of the districts. What does the NC constitution say regarding this?
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Sec. 3. Senate districts; apportionment of Senators.
The Senators shall be elected from districts.
The General Assembly, at the first regular session convening after the return of every decennial census of population taken by order of Congress, shall revise the senate districts and the apportionment of Senators among those districts, subject to the following requirements:
(1) Each Senator shall represent, as nearly as may be, an equal number of inhabitants, the number of inhabitants that each Senator represents being determined for this purpose by dividing the population of the district that he represents by the number of Senators apportioned to that district;
(2) Each senate district shall at all times consist of contiguous territory;
(3) No county shall be divided in the formation of a senate district;
(4) When established, the senate districts and the apportionment of Senators shall remain unaltered until the return of another decennial census of population taken by order of Congress.
Sec. 4. Number of Representatives.
The House of Representatives shall be composed of 120 Representatives, biennially chosen by ballot.
Sec. 5. Representative districts; apportionment of Representatives.
The Representatives shall be elected from districts.
The General Assembly, at the first regular session convening after the return of every decennial census of population taken by order of Congress, shall revise the representative districts and the apportionment of Representatives among those districts, subject to the following requirements:
(1) Each Representative shall represent, as nearly as may be, an equal number of inhabitants, the number of inhabitants that each Representative represents being determined for this purpose by dividing the population of the district that he represents by the number of Representatives apportioned to that district;
(2) Each representative district shall at all times consist of contiguous territory;
(3) No county shall be divided in the formation of a representative district;
(4) When established, the representative districts and the apportionment of Representatives shall remain unaltered until the return of another decennial census of population taken by order of Congress."
I see no references to judges drawing the districts, assuming the guidlines listed above were met.
Who would legitimately have standing to take this to court. I lived in a district that had 80+% voted for the other party, is that "fair" that my preferred candidate had literally no chance?
Really? "Vote the
same"? They do not all vote the same. Obviously the percentages are higher for one party, but things change.