Under legal pressure to address Wisconsin’s “Swiss cheese” and oddly shaped districts, the Legislature approved redrawn maps that promise to create a new dynamic in a state known for its pivotal role in national politics.

Under legal pressure to address Wisconsin’s “Swiss cheese” and oddly shaped districts, the Legislature approved redrawn maps that promise to create a new dynamic in a state known for its pivotal role in national politics.

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.

  • derf82@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    9 months ago

    It does, and a petition is collected signatures. But it still needs to dodge Republican interference (they will probably make the ballot language prejudicial), negative ads about “unelected bureaucrats”, and actually pass.

    • FartsWithAnAccent@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      9 months ago

      They passed constitutional abortion rights though, kinda seems like gerrymandering might actually be something that could pass