In the time since Texas started mulling these new voting maps, other states controlled by both political parties – including Florida, New York, Ohio and Missouri – have been mulling political changes to their voting maps.<\/p>\n
California lawmakers are currently debating new maps that would give new advantages to Democrats in five districts, which would cancel out changes made in Texas. <\/p>\n
A key provision in California says the changed maps would only go into effect if Texas or other states went ahead with changes favouring Republicans. <\/p>\n
The changed maps in Texas sparked concerns about gerrymandering – the redrawing of electoral boundaries to favour a political party – which is legal unless it is racially motivated. <\/p>\n
Like other states, Texas typically redraws congressional districts once a decade when new population data is released by the US Census. <\/p>\n
Texas Democrats contend that redrawing the maps before the next census count in 2030 is being done along racial lines – an argument that has been rejected by Republicans. Voting maps that were approved in 2021 after the last population count are currently being litigated over allegations of racial discrimination. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the time since Texas started mulling these new voting maps, other states controlled by both political parties…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":360648,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13,12,14],"class_list":{"0":"post-360647","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115063754920802785","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=360647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360647\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/360648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}