A three-judge federal panel has ruled that South Carolina's U.S. House district lines intentionally split Black neighborhoods to dilute their voting power. The judges asked state lawmakers to approve new maps by the end of March.
COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina’s congressional maps will be redrawn after a three-judge federal panel ruled Friday that the U.S. House district lines intentionally split Black neighborhoods to dilute their voting power.
The state used the maps in this past November’s midterm elections after the Republican-dominated state LegislatureFriday’s ruling said the coastal 1st District running from Charleston to Hilton Head Island was drawn to remove Black voters and make it a safer seat for Republicans. Rep. Nancy Mace currently represents the district. She beat Joe Cunningham in 2020 after Cunningham became the first Democrat to flip a U.S. House seat in South Carolina in 30 years.
Mace won by just over 1 percentage point in 2020, but after the district was redrawn, won by 14 percentage points in November.charging the state Legislature with choosing “perhaps the worst option of the available maps” for Black voters.The judges requested state lawmakers pass new U.S. House maps by the end of March. They said no elections can take place in the 1st District until it is redrawn.
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