EFE.- A judge annulled a new florida election map promoted by the governor, the republican Ron DeSantisfor violating the state Constitution by narrowing the choices of African-American voters, and prohibited its use in any future election.
State Magistrate J. Lee Marsh, sitting in Leon County, ordered Florida lawmakers design a new map that is in accordance with the state Constitution, given that the one enacted last year reduces the chances of African-American voters to choose a candidate of their choice, reports this Sunday the newspaper The New York Times.
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The crux of the lawsuit brought by voting rights groups concerns what used to be the Fifth Congressional District, a vast area in the northern part of the state that stretched from the city of Jacksonville to the capital, Tallahassee, near the border with Georgia.
In this district, with a 46% African American voters, In the 2016, 2018 and 2020 elections, the Democratic congressman Al Lawson had been elected to the federal Congress.
Under the new map, this district was divided into four, where African-American voters no longer had the same proportion, and in the 2022 elections in each of them a Republican representative was elected, while Lawson was defeated by his opponent.
The governor was significantly involved in shaping the new electoral map and In fact, in March of last year, he vetoed the configuration that had been approved by the State House of Representatives and Senate, which was maintained by the Lawson district.
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A month later, the Republican convened a special legislative period in which the map that he himself drew up was approved, and which delimited the new districts corresponding to each of the congressmen representing the midterm elections of that year. Florida in the federal Legislature.
After the judge’s decision, issued on Saturday, this case is expected to end in the supreme court state, dominated by judges who were appointed by DeSantis.
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2023-09-04 03:19:50
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