Judge considers accusations that New Mexico Democrats tried to dilute votes with redistricting map

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: AP

Updated 2:13 AM EDT, September 27, 2023


SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Accusations that New Mexico’s Democratic-led Legislature unfairly diluted the vote of a politically conservative oil-producing region with its redistricting map are heading to trial on Wednesday, despite a last-minute flurry of motions that included an effort by the governor’s attorneys to delay the proceedings.

The outcome is likely to have a big influence on which party represents a congressional swing district along the U.S. border with Mexico where partisan control has flipped back and forth three times in three elections.

New Mexico’s 2nd District is one of about a dozen that are in the spotlight nationally as Republicans campaign to hold onto their slim majority in the U.S. House of Representatives in 2024.

Democrats got a potential boost for the 2024 congressional elections as courts in Alabama and Florida ruled recently that Republican-led legislatures had unfairly diluted the voting power of Black residents. Legal challenges to congressional districts also are ongoing in Arkansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Georgia, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Utah.

Read more: https://apnews.com/article/new-mexico-redistricting-gerrymandering-b22706ae44b1766e78bf1f5b523da492

[Alexander Of Assyria]

1. AP seems ignorant to the fact oil rich conservatives have never been discriminated against,

and were never mentioned in the civil rights act or voters rights act or anywhere else…AP and rest of the oligarch media try so so hard don’t they?

Oil rich conservatives, history of black torture and voter suppression…all sides equal!

The nation is in grave danger not by trump, he’s a placeholder, it’s your corrupt oligarch media that’s attacking the truth with all guns blazing.

They know what they are doing…remember how very effective the media were dragging the nation into a false war built on lies after lie supported by mass media…that destroyed a nation for the pleasure of American politicians?

Now all that propaganda talent is focused on electing a fascist, again! Worked once!

[LiberalFighter]

2. Wouldn't it be more difficult to gerrymander a state that has only 3 districts?

[BumRushDaShow]

3. Here's what NM did vs what NE did (both have 3)

NM




NE



What happens is if, and if so, how they might carve up or split the urban areas.

[stopdiggin]

4. more or less coming down to whose

gerrymander is legal - versus whose is not. (with the high court already granting nodding approval to a certain amount of political license) And right now we're in a place where we are going case by case, and judge by judge. How much is too much - and is one type of voter offered greater protections, while another may go wanting .. ?

If prior example is any measure - I think you would have a hard time tossing either the NM or the NE examples offered above.