False, new maps still heavily heavily favor the GOP. Just not a supermajority while losing the popular vote.
> Even under the governor’s maps, the GOP is still expected to retain majorities in both chambers, though the party’s advantage would likely be slimmer than the absolute authority it now commands, particularly in the Senate.
Wisconsin’s dinosaur-shaped legislative district could soon be history.
The curiously drawn district and other oddities associated with the state’s extreme gerrymandering would be erased in new voting maps passed this week by the Wisconsin Legislature.
A state Supreme Court decision finally forced Wisconsin Republicans to cede an advantage they enjoyed for more than a decade with maps that made the state one of the nation’s foremost examples of gerrymandering.
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The Senate and Assembly voted to adopt voting maps drawn by the office of Gov. Tony Evers, a Democrat.
Hoping this will be vetoed due to the implementation delay poison pill. This would enable the courts to implement even better maps than the right leaning ones Evers offered as a compromise to avoid the current extreme.
Democrats need to start just gerrymandering every state as much as possible at this point. That way republicans will actually want to enact some legislation to make it illegal.
Thank God
Partisan gerrymandering is so blatantly rotten it should be unconstitutional at any level. District maps should be drawn up by independent 3rd parties and the political leaning of the residents not made available or be considered when the maps are drawn. The fact that these exist are just another example of how rotten and anti freedom the United States and the state governments are.
> A Marquette University analysis determined that if the 2022 election had taken place under Evers’ maps, it’s likely that Democrats would have won an additional 11 seats in the Assembly and five in the Senate, neither enough to flip control.
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Ain’t going to happen
False, new maps still heavily heavily favor the GOP. Just not a supermajority while losing the popular vote.
> Even under the governor’s maps, the GOP is still expected to retain majorities in both chambers, though the party’s advantage would likely be slimmer than the absolute authority it now commands, particularly in the Senate.
Wisconsin’s dinosaur-shaped legislative district could soon be history.
The curiously drawn district and other oddities associated with the state’s extreme gerrymandering would be erased in new voting maps passed this week by the Wisconsin Legislature.
A state Supreme Court decision finally forced Wisconsin Republicans to cede an advantage they enjoyed for more than a decade with maps that made the state one of the nation’s foremost examples of gerrymandering.
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The Senate and Assembly voted to adopt voting maps drawn by the office of Gov. Tony Evers, a Democrat.
Hoping this will be vetoed due to the implementation delay poison pill. This would enable the courts to implement even better maps than the right leaning ones Evers offered as a compromise to avoid the current extreme.
Democrats need to start just gerrymandering every state as much as possible at this point. That way republicans will actually want to enact some legislation to make it illegal.
Thank God
Partisan gerrymandering is so blatantly rotten it should be unconstitutional at any level. District maps should be drawn up by independent 3rd parties and the political leaning of the residents not made available or be considered when the maps are drawn. The fact that these exist are just another example of how rotten and anti freedom the United States and the state governments are.
> A Marquette University analysis determined that if the 2022 election had taken place under Evers’ maps, it’s likely that Democrats would have won an additional 11 seats in the Assembly and five in the Senate, neither enough to flip control.