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Amendment 3 unraveled the

artappraiser — Thu, 05 Nov 2020 18:08:56 +0000

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Amendment 3 unraveled the reforms passed in Missouri by ballot initiative in 2018, removing key redistricting safeguards. But opportunities still remain in the fight for fair maps. https://t.co/3Q3vay0zQZ
— Brennan Center (@BrennanCenter) November 5, 2020

on the coming NY state

artappraiser — Thu, 05 Nov 2020 16:56:08 +0000

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on the coming NY state experiment attempt to erase partisanship in districting:

“The coming redistricting, expected to finish in early 2022, will be unlike any other New York has experienced.” — reports ⁦@J__Velasquez⁩ ⁦@THECITYNY⁩ https://t.co/Ah464oN7Cv
— Reuven Blau (@ReuvenBlau) November 5, 2020

2020 Legislative Election

artappraiser — Thu, 05 Nov 2020 06:10:48 +0000

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2020 Legislative Election Results: It’s Status Quo in the States

By Tim Storey and Wendy Underhill @ National Conference of State Legislatures Blog, Nov. 4

For the visual learners out there, compare the postelection map of legislative control against the map of preelection control. Can you spot the differences? Probably not. At this point there are no changes. That is phenomenal in and of itself.

As of now, NCSL has not confirmed that any chambers have switched party control, although at least two are looking possible based on trends in results posted to this point. Democrats look like they will win the Arizona House for the first time since 1966. Republicans are poised to win back the New Hampshire Senate that went Democratic just two years ago.

Control of several other chambers is still undetermined. (It’s not news at this point that ballot counting goes on longer in some states than in others.) We’re still waiting on results to finalize chamber control in [...]

But of the chambers we can call, we have zero changes so far. In other words, this appears to be a remarkably status quo election in the U.S. states.

It looks like this will be the least party control changes on Election Day since at least 1944 when only four chambers changed hands. It’s still possible that there could be even fewer than four flips as a result of Tuesday’s voting. In the 1926 and 1928 elections, only one chamber changed hands. And 2020 could conceivably match that. Stay tuned.

[....] As it stands now, the lack of partisan change in the states is jaw dropping.