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With midterm elections looming later this year, states are grappling over revisions to their election maps.
Here’s a look at some recent developments across the U.S.:
Kansas: GOP’s map vetoed
In Kansas, Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly on Thursday vetoed Republicans’ congressional map that would have made it more difficult for the state’s only Democratic U.S. House member, Rep. Sharice Davids, to get re-elected.
“The process of drawing districts each decade is the core to ensuring that all Kansans have the opportunity to participate in their government and have their voices heard,” the governor said, according to FOX 4 in Kansas City. “The courts and the Legislature have established case law and criteria on how to draw Kansas districts fairly and constitutionally.”
Kansas state Reps. Brenda Landwehr, left, R-Wichita, and Steve Huebert, R-Valley Center, confer during a meeting of a House committee on redistricting at the Statehouse in Topeka, Jan. 18, 2022.
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She said the map would dilute minority communities’ voting strength and called for compromise.
“Without explanation, this map shifts 46% of the Black population and 33% of the Hispanic population out of the 3rd Congressional District by dividing the Hispanic neighborhoods of Quindaro Bluffs, Bethel-Welborn, Strawberry Hill, Armourdale and others from Argentine, Turner and the rest of Kansas City, Kansas south of I-70,” she said.
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Republicans said they will try to override Kelly’s veto with a two-thirds majority, according to the station.
Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly, a Democrat, gives a speech on Sept. 17, 2019.
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The map passed the House last month by a vote of 79-37 and the Senate 26-9, according to the Washington Examiner.
State Republicans in a statement called the map “politically fair,” noting the…
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