Va. Senate Democrats ask state Supreme Court to disqualify Republicans’ nominated map drawers
Va. Senate Democrats ask state Supreme Court to disqualify Republicans’ nominated map drawers
- November 8, 2021
- Bernie Grofman, poli sci, The Washington Post and MSN, Nov. 8, 2021
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The Democratic nominees include Bernard Grofman, a political science [Distinguished] Professor at the University of California, Irvine. Grofman also served as a special master to a federal court in 2019 to redraw Virginia House districts, intended to repair racial gerrymandering in the southeast part of the state. … In a 131-page report to the court, Grofman noted that his map proposals were “drawn in a fashion that is blind with respect to partisan outcomes, with partisan data and election outcome data not examined except where needed to avoid minority vote dilution.”
For the full story, please visit https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2021/11/08/virginia-redistricting-republican-map-drawers/.
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