The Virginia State Supreme Court has struck down the new redistricting map.
Their legal reasoning sounds completely bonkers, unless there is some sort of provision in the state constitution that specifically calls this out:
The problem, the court’s majority suggested, was that the first vote on the amendment in the General Assembly, which would authorize Democrats to redraw the map, occurred days before last fall’s legislative elections — meaning that some Virginians who cast their ballots early did so without knowing how their state lawmakers would vote on the new map.
How the Fuck is this a thing?
A representative vote in a way that the voter does not anticipate when foting is kind of like the foundation of representative democracy!


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