A North Carolina court on Tuesday struck down the state’s legislative voting maps, reasoning that the current maps “do not permit voters to freely choose their representative.”
The court’s decision hinged on evidence acquired from the computer records of Thomas Hofeller, the recently deceased GOP operative and godfather of modern-day gerrymandering, who spearheaded the state’s efforts to redraw voting maps.
While the full cache of more than 70,000 files remain under court-ordered seal until at least September 17, they were obtained by The New Yorker and appear to show that Hofeller unconstitutionally used race data of the voting populous to design the maps, according to a report Friday.
“North Carolina Republicans said that the maps discriminated based on partisanship but not race.
The files also revealed that Hofeller provided similar data-driven gerrymandering advisory services in several other states, including Texas, Massachusetts, Arizona, and Florida, which could lead to similar constitutional challenges to those states’ legislative voting maps.
While North Carolina Republicans have persistently denied that the line was drawn to dilute the voting power of the majority minority population, Hofeller’s data appear to show otherwise.
He also collected similar data that tracked the race, voting patterns, and addresses of tens of thousands of other North Carolina college students. »
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