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Having seized the role of mapmaker, Democratic lawmakers were left with a choice: whether to tinker with the panel’s proposals, or aggressively redraw the map to their own advantage and risk increasing the odds a court might reject their changes.
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Tim Balk, New York Daily News, 27 Feb. 2024
These stories were fantastic—and likely false, for the most part, as were widespread tales of Japanese candy store operators who were really mapmakers, Japanese fishermen who were really taking harbor soundings, and Japanese barbers who picked up military secrets from their unsuspecting clients.
—Oona A. Hathaway, Foreign Affairs, 7 Dec. 2021
The judges found that Republican mapmakers set a target of 17% Black voting-age population in Congressional District 1 and moved more than 30,000 Black residents into Congressional District 6 to produce a stronger Republican lean.
—Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 23 May 2024
Advertisement When the South Carolina Legislature redrew its seven districts in response to the 2020 Census, the mapmakers sought to shore up her district as a Republican stronghold.
—David G. Savage, Los Angeles Times, 23 May 2024
In recent years, conservative legal experts have begun to argue that the 14th Amendment’s equal protection clause means that mapmakers cannot take race into account when drawing districts.
—Marilyn W. Thompson, ProPublica, 18 Jan. 2024
Washington state’s mapmakers had been working for almost a year to draw the lines that would shape the state’s elections for the next decade.
—Marilyn W. Thompson, ProPublica, 18 Jan. 2024
This type of gerrymandering is called packing, and allows mapmakers to ensure that there is less competition for their party in neighboring districts.
—Journal Sentinel, 9 Jan. 2024
That may seem odd, but what is often left unsaid in discussions of Wisconsin maps is that the islands are not random parcels created by mapmakers to advantage Republicans at the behest of a Republican legislature.
—Megan O’Matz, ProPublica, 17 Nov. 2023
Tim Balk, New York Daily News, 27 Feb. 2024
These stories were fantastic—and likely false, for the most part, as were widespread tales of Japanese candy store operators who were really mapmakers, Japanese fishermen who were really taking harbor soundings, and Japanese barbers who picked up military secrets from their unsuspecting clients.
—Oona A. Hathaway, Foreign Affairs, 7 Dec. 2021
The judges found that Republican mapmakers set a target of 17% Black voting-age population in Congressional District 1 and moved more than 30,000 Black residents into Congressional District 6 to produce a stronger Republican lean.
—Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 23 May 2024
Advertisement When the South Carolina Legislature redrew its seven districts in response to the 2020 Census, the mapmakers sought to shore up her district as a Republican stronghold.
—David G. Savage, Los Angeles Times, 23 May 2024
In recent years, conservative legal experts have begun to argue that the 14th Amendment’s equal protection clause means that mapmakers cannot take race into account when drawing districts.
—Marilyn W. Thompson, ProPublica, 18 Jan. 2024
Washington state’s mapmakers had been working for almost a year to draw the lines that would shape the state’s elections for the next decade.
—Marilyn W. Thompson, ProPublica, 18 Jan. 2024
This type of gerrymandering is called packing, and allows mapmakers to ensure that there is less competition for their party in neighboring districts.
—Journal Sentinel, 9 Jan. 2024
That may seem odd, but what is often left unsaid in discussions of Wisconsin maps is that the islands are not random parcels created by mapmakers to advantage Republicans at the behest of a Republican legislature.
—Megan O’Matz, ProPublica, 17 Nov. 2023
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“Mapmaker.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mapmaker. Accessed 19 Jun. 2024.
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map·mak·er
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