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New York Supreme Court Judge Patrick McAllister late Friday released final New York congressional and state Senate maps. The new maps become law at midnight. The release comes after the original maps, drawn by New York Democrats, were overturned by McAllister in April. The maps were drawn by Jonathan Cervas, a fellow at Carnegie Mellon [...]

The Florida District Court of Appeal for the First District Friday reinstated a new congressional map proposed by Governor Ron DeSantis’ office. The court’s order overturned a May 12 decision ruling the map unconstitutional under the state’s Sixth Amendment. The appellate court criticized the lower court’s ruling, writing, “ased on a preliminary review, the court [...]

The Kansas Supreme Court Wednesday issued an opinion rejecting a challenge to Kansas’s new redistricting law which opponents said represented a form of partisan gerrymandering. The decision comes two days after the court heard oral arguments regarding the law’s validity. The court announced its unanimous decision, which upheld the validity of Senate Bill No. 563. The [...]

A lawsuit filed Monday in the New York Supreme Court seeks the immediate invalidation of New York State Assembly voting district lines. The petitioners in the complaint are New York gubernatorial candidate Paul Nichols, former New York State Senate Candidate Gary Greenberg, and the President of New York Young Republican Club Gavin Wax. On April [...]

A press conference was held Wednesday to announce a constitutional challenge against the redistricting of the New York State Assembly’s electoral districts. Gary Greenberg and his legal counsel, Jim Walden of Walden Macht & Haran, filed a lawsuit against Governor Kathy Hochul and legislative officials alleging that State Assembly maps were gerrymandered “to protect Democratic [...]

The New York State Court of Appeals, the state’s highest court, Wednesday invalidated electoral maps drawn by Democratic lawmakers. In a 32-page ruling, the court found that lawmakers had violated the state constitution and ordered new maps to be drawn. In 2014, New York voters approved a constitutional amendment to create a non-partisan redistricting commission. [...]

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis Monday signed controversial legislation SB524 into law. The bill purports to “ensure that Florida continues to have secure and accurate elections,” but voting rights advocates argue the bill is unnecessary and dangerous. The bill increases penalties for violations of election laws, mandates closer attention to voting rolls, and creates an Office [...]

A group of individual voters and community-based groups filed a lawsuit Friday challenging Florida’s new congressional district map. The organizations Black Voters Matter, Equal Ground, the League of Women Voters of Florida, and Florida Rising, supported by the National Redistricting Foundation, joined with 12 individual plaintiffs in filing the lawsuit. The complaint noted that Florida [...]

On March 24, 2022 the Ohio Supreme Court denied Ohio Senator Vernon Sykes’ and Ohio House Minority Leader Allison Russo’s motion to move Ohio’s May 3 primary to a later date. Their motion followed the Ohio Supreme Court’s March 16 decision striking down the Ohio Redistricting Commission’s second stab at drawing non-partisan maps for Ohio’s [...]

New Hampshire voters supported by the National Redistricting Foundation (NRF) Thursday filed a complaint asking the Hillsborough County Superior Court to step in to draw updated congressional districts for the state based on population changes. According to the complaint, in August 2021 the US Census Bureau delivered to New Hampshire its redistricting data generated from [...]