Marc Levy Of The Associated Press
New proposals to redraw Pennsylvania’s congressional districts rolled in Thursday in a high-stakes gerrymandering case, meeting a court-ordered deadline to submit maps of boundaries for the state Supreme Court to consider adopting for this year’s election.
Pennsylvania’s House Democrats and Senate Democrats each submitted a plan Thursday, as did a group of Republican activists who intervened in the case. The registered Democratic voters who sued successfully to invalidate the current map planned to submit a map and Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf may also. Each can submit as many suggested maps as they like.
The midnight deadline gives justices four more days to impose new boundaries under a timeline the divided court set to keep May’s primary election on schedule.
Pennsylvania’s congressional map — drawn by Republicans to get Republicans elected — is widely viewed as among the nation’s most gerrymandered. Upending it could boost Democrats nationally in their quest to capture control of the U.S. House and dramatically change the state’s predominantly Republican, all-male delegation. Meanwhile, sitting congressmen, dozens of would-be candidates and millions of voters could find themselves in different districts.
Read more at http://www.mcall.com/news/nationworld/pennsylvania/mc-nws-pennsylvania-gerrymander-map-choices-20180215-story.html.
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