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A group of Democratic voters and public figures are suing New Hampshire's secretary of state over the state's newly drawn districts for Senate and Executive ...

Both chambers have flipped between Democratic and Republican control since the lines were last drawn in 2010. Sununu has vowed to veto both proposed maps from the House, arguing they are not competitive enough. If Republicans were to win those 16 districts, they would control a supermajority in the Senate and could overturn any gubernatorial veto, the lawsuit notes. The newly drawn maps reallocate towns into the state’s 24 Senate districts and five Executive Council districts. That result was achieved by “surgically grabbing Democratic strongholds while carefully excluding Republican-leaning municipalities in the same areas,” the lawsuit states. Sununu had previously criticized one district in the current map: Executive Council District 2, which snaked from the Vermont border to the Maine border and lumped together a number of Democratic voting towns along the way.

A lawsuit filed Friday in Hillsborough County Superior Court argues the new maps compromise “fundamental rights to free and equal election, equal protections ...

With majorities in the state House and Senate, Republicans have largely controlled the redistricting process this year. “Meanwhile, just to win a bare majority of districts under either plan, Democrats must amass well more than half of the statewide vote.” No date has been set for a hearing in this case.

An eagle-eyed TikToker has found shots of mythical and frightening creatures, such as Big Food and giant snakes, on Google Street View.

While some are intrigued by the video, the top comment is skeptical – a user wrote the Bigfoot figure is a “man in a bigfoot suit who knew Google was coming”. While it may be fun to believe, this “creature” is actually the Serpent d’océan, a massive aluminum sculpture set in the Loire River. “A Google Street View user was searching in the woods of Russia when he suddenly discovered something very mysterious,” the digitized voice-over said.

Bigfoot, also known as Sasquatch, is one of the greatest-known creatures in American folklore, said to be the stage of evolution between ape and man, roaming ...

We really have to trust you with this." One user wrote: "Man in a Bigfoot suit who knew Google was coming." A third speculated: "The Bigfoot is a wooden statue...

Wisconsin's new state legislative maps are considered the most partisan-biased, court-adopted maps in the nation. That's according to a new analysis from ...

The analysis finds that Wisconsin's state legislative maps have substantially higher levels of partisan inequity than other court-adopted maps, with a score three to five times worse on each metric. That’s according to a new analysis from the University of Wisconsin Law School. The maps heavily advantage Republican politicians, all but guaranteeing Republican-rule in the state Legislature, regardless of what most voters want. Wade suggests the court has left the decision over abortion rights and women’s autonomy to state governments.

Now that they're apparently close to victory in redistricting lawsuits affecting the 2022 state legislative elections, Ohio Republicans now are setting ...

The commission re-approved the rejected map last Thursday, three weeks after the Ohio Supreme Court rejected a slightly different map plan on April 14. But in their court filing Monday, Cupp and Huffman gave different arguments for why the court should wait until after November before ruling on the maps. Citing various pre-election legal deadlines, LaRose said April 20 was the last date Republicans could approve a new map in time to hold an Aug. 2 election. The third plan also appears likely to be used in state legislative elections on Aug. 2 and in November, per a federal court ruling issued last month. “Rather, it should be viewed as just a stop-gap measure so that the 2022 primary and general elections for state legislative districts can proceed.” They also said waiting would would reduce voter confusion by avoiding holding a redistricting process for new maps while elections are being held under a different set of lines.

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Spectrum News 1 has exclusively obtained a version of an Ohio House map drawn by a Democrat who claimed Republicans offered their input in ...

The map is certainly better than (Map 3). But it’s part of the puzzle because part of the puzzle is you would need to have some public hearings. We still would need to go through a process of the Senate.” “We still have to keep demanding for fair maps,” said Sweeney. “And this is not a map that I want to necessarily be instituted. We’re kind of in a time lock,” LaRe said last Thursday immediately after the commission adopted the maps. You need to have some exchange with the commissioners -- all of those kinds of things. Turcer is a redistricting expert who was involved in getting the state’s constitution reformed in 2015 and 2018. LaRe denied claims that Republicans members were shut out of the mapmaking process. She thought it addressed concerns for some of our members and she didn't offer it up or offer to show it to me, but rather I said, you know, 'Our concern is the same thing that Secretary LaRose has raised at this point, that as we where we sit today under current law, there isn't an opportunity to consider another map.' And that was the gist of the conversation. Ohio House Minority Leader Allison Russo, D-Upper Arlington, echoed Sweeney's bipartisan efforts, but told Spectrum News 1 she did not like the map when she first saw it. Sweeney, who has no ties to the redistricting commission, did not name Republicans she worked with to come up with the new drawing. Spectrum News asked directly if he spoke to Sweeney but he has not responded. Sweeney also said GOP members complained about the most recent map readopted by the commission.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio's Republican leaders want to call a time out in the battle over state legislative maps — at least until after this fall's general ...

It cannot make the legislature change statutory deadlines, the date of the election, or the law. It cannot turn back the hands of time. Democrats have questioned that math, contending many of the districts counted as Democratic are actually too closely divided to fall into their column. The process was supposed to be done in September, 2021. The dispute over redrawing the maps resulted in races for state representative and senator being left off Ohio's May 3 primary ballot. Few districts tallied as Republican, on the other hand, are winnable by Democrats.

The state's redistricting process has been on a roller coaster since the mapmaking commission started its work nine months ago.

In January, the Ohio Supreme Court ruled those maps were unconstitutional in a 4-3 decision. To top it off, a second primary could cost the state up to $25 million. On August 6, 2021, the seven members of the Ohio Redistricting Commission convened and took the oath of office. Mapmakers and consultants have been paid hundreds of thousands of dollars by the redistricting commission's task force. Republican commissioners would face criticism from Democratic commissioners and advocates who insisted that it was possible to draft constitutional maps. Three groups – representing voting right advocates, community organizations, and a national Democratic group – each filed lawsuits against the maps.

May 9—NASHUA — Lawyers for former House Speaker Terie Norelli, D-Portsmouth, and 11 other Democrats have sued the state, charging that new redistricting ...

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A challenge to Louisiana's newly drawn congressional maps opened Monday in federal court, with a coalition of civil rights groups hoping judges will ...

While he’s making the maps, he relies on other socioeconomic data, he said. Dick also heard testimony from a few Louisiana citizens who are named plaintiffs in the case and say that keeping the current maps would be an irreparable injury to them. In February, the high court’s conservative majority stayed a lower court’s order in Alabama invalidating that state’s new congressional maps, saying it came too close to the start of absentee voting in Alabama’s primary election. These intervenors include Attorney General Jeff Landry, House Speaker Clay Schexnayder, the Louisiana Legislative Black Caucus and Senate President Page Cortez. The new congressional maps, if preserved, take effect with the Nov. 8 elections, for which qualifying occurs July 20-22. The court agreed to hear the Alabama case on its merits in its next term, and in the interim, it ordered Alabama to conduct its congressional elections with the existing map.

BATON ROUGE, La. (BRPROUD) — The next step to challenge Louisiana's congressional map happened Monday at the Middle District Court of Lousiana.

People think they've spotted a "secret rocket" hidden deep in the desert on Google Maps.According to Daily Star, the unusual find was shared on the Reddit ...

"There's a ton of these things in the area. "China's land-based conventional missile capabilities have developed significantly over the last several years. It is the second-largest shifting sand desert in the world.

INTERNET SLEUTHS think they have uncovered a secret Chinese rocket on a launch pad hidden in a desert on Google Maps.One Reddit user by the handle u.

"This article has a bit of information and a map of locations for the CCP missile force. Not a rocket, however," one user said. a second user chimed in. "That's quite a road to nowhere you followed. Maybe oil/gas wells?" https://chinapower.csis.org/conventional-missiles/," the user noted.

The next step to challenge Louisiana's congressional map happened Monday at the Middle District Court of Lousiana.

The state's redistricting process has been on a roller coaster since the mapmaking commission started its work nine months ago.

In January, the Ohio Supreme Court ruled those maps were unconstitutional in a 4-3 decision. To top it off, a second primary could cost the state up to $25 million. On Aug. 6, 2021, the seven members of the Ohio Redistricting Commission convened and took the oath of office. This was the first meeting of the commission, which was established by a constitutional amendment. Mapmakers and consultants have been paid hundreds of thousands of dollars by the redistricting commission's task force. Three groups, representing voting right advocates, community organizations, and a national Democratic group, each filed lawsuits against the maps.

Joseph Staten has outlined that classic maps from the Halo series may be coming to 343's latest game.

Having classic maps appear in the game would likely bring back lapsed players, and could even get brand new converts to move over from the Master Chief Collection and try walking on the modern side of the franchise, if they're done right. Season 2 debuted with two new maps – Catalyst and Breaker – and they haven't exactly set the world on fire. Guardian, Blood Gulch, The Pit... there are a lot of maps that are awesome, right?

The Ohio Redistricting Commission is asking the state supreme court to rule on a legislative plan previously deemed unconstitutional only after it has been ...

The state's redistricting process has been on a roller coaster since the mapmaking commission started its work nine months ago.

In January, the Ohio Supreme Court ruled those maps were unconstitutional in a 4-3 decision. To top it off, a second primary could cost the state up to $25 million. On August 6, 2021, the seven members of the Ohio Redistricting Commission convened and took the oath of office. Mapmakers and consultants have been paid hundreds of thousands of dollars by the redistricting commission's task force. Republican commissioners would face criticism from Democratic commissioners and advocates who insisted that it was possible to draft constitutional maps. Three groups – representing voting right advocates, community organizations, and a national Democratic group – each filed lawsuits against the maps.