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Florida city highlights impacts of gerrymandering
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A protracted legal fight over how city council districts were drawn in Jacksonville, Florida, reflects an aspect of redistricting that often remains in the shadows. Political map-drawing for congressional and state legislative seats captures wide attention after new census numbers are released every 10 years. No less fierce are the battles over the way voting lines are drawn in local governments, for city councils, county commissions and even school boards. A group of Jacksonville residents and civil rights organizations successfully sued the city last year, alleging the council's redistricting plan amounted to racial gerrymandering by packing Black communities into a handful of districts. A U.S. district court judge last fall ruled in their favor and ordered the maps redrawn.
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