In the past few months, the courts have found fault with North Carolina鈥檚 state and congressional maps. In June, the U.S. Supreme Court that state legislative districts are unconstitutional because of racial gerrymandering, and last month a determined that there is partisan gerrymandering in the state鈥檚 congressional districts.
Republicans in the General Assembly drew both sets of maps. As these two legal cases continue to make their way through courts, host Frank Stasio talks with two researchers working to create less partisan maps: Duke mathematician discusses the tool he created to determine partisan gerrymandering and , former judge and president emeritus of the University of North Carolina System, shares a simulation he created of a bipartisan, independent redistricting commission that was tasked with redrawing maps.
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