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The decision belongs to the voters, not the mapmakers.—New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 23 Jan. 2026 That's largely because in many Southern states — where voting is often polarized between a Republican-supporting white majority and a Democratic-supporting Black minority — political mapmakers have drawn a certain kind of district to get in line with the Voting Rights Act's Section 2 provisions.—Hansi Lo Wang, NPR, 8 Jan. 2026 If this archive had not been in her house until the final years of her life, but in a collection that needed to downsize a few decades ago, her maps would have been the first to go to save space for the higher profile—undoubtedly male—mapmakers who will now appear obscure by comparison.—Literary Hub, 19 Nov. 2025 Particularly petty is that mapmakers studied the home addresses of Republican lawmakers and, out of spite, drew Issa out of his district.—Barnini Chakraborty, The Washington Examiner, 6 Nov. 2025 See All Example Sentences for mapmaker