Under legal pressure to address Wisconsin’s “Swiss cheese” and oddly shaped districts, the Legislature approved redrawn maps that promise to create a new dynamic in a state known for its pivotal role in national politics.

Under legal pressure to address Wisconsin’s “Swiss cheese” and oddly shaped districts, the Legislature approved redrawn maps that promise to create a new dynamic in a state known for its pivotal role in national politics.

Wisconsin’s dinosaur-shaped legislative district could soon be history.

The curiously drawn district and other oddities associated with the state’s extreme gerrymandering would be erased in new voting maps passed this week by the Wisconsin Legislature.

A state Supreme Court decision finally forced Wisconsin Republicans to cede an advantage they enjoyed for more than a decade with maps that made the state one of the nation’s foremost examples of gerrymandering.

    • SeaJ@lemm.ee
      34·
      9 months ago

      Constitutionally they have to. That did not stop Republicans from forcing an unconstitutional map, or coursebut at least it was slightly more representative.

      Speaking of that…what happened with that lawsuit? I know the Supreme Court said the map was illegal back in 2022.

      • Ð Greıt Þu̇mpkin@lemm.ee
        171·
        9 months ago

        Ohio’s Rs got around it by saying a map that reflected the proportions of elected offices held by each party was “proportionally representative”

        It just so happened that due to previous Gerrymandering Republicans held 80% of the elected offices in the state of Ohio.

    • FartsWithAnAccent@lemmy.worldEnglish
      24·
      9 months ago

      Doesn’t Ohio have a thing where people can change the constitution with just a petition and enough votes on the ballot?

      • derf82@lemmy.worldEnglish
        241·
        9 months ago

        It does, and a petition is collected signatures. But it still needs to dodge Republican interference (they will probably make the ballot language prejudicial), negative ads about “unelected bureaucrats”, and actually pass.

        • FartsWithAnAccent@lemmy.worldEnglish
          13·
          9 months ago

          They passed constitutional abortion rights though, kinda seems like gerrymandering might actually be something that could pass

      • Dark Arc@social.packetloss.ggEnglish
        4·
        9 months ago

        It does and we have… Multiple fucking times. They didn’t get the message (really obnoxious in the case of the most recent one where they ignored the Ohio Supreme Court because they knew they could wait one cycle and have control of it), we’re trying again soon with a “you don’t get a say in map making anymore Mr. Politician” approach soon.

    • Chainweasel@lemmy.worldEnglish
      19·
      9 months ago

      Fellow ohioan here, I don’t even know what district I’m in anymore because it changes every 2 years when they rig the maps again.