Alabama voters will vote in the 2024 elections using a map that includes a second district designed to empower the state’s Black voters, a federal court ruled on Thursday

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    I’m glad the courts went with outside help bypassing Alabama. Everyone knew Alabama was going to keep stalling until the election and use their rigged maps.

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    Sounds like the exact same thing the supreme court told them to do a month ago and they said “nah”. What’s to stop the blight of democracy from just not doing it again?

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      They can’t use the fall back method where they use their old rigged maps because a new one wasn’t approved. The article said they are having an outside firm make three maps and a panel of 3 judges will pick one of them. Alabama will contest it but the court will uphold the new map and voting will be done with the judge appointed map.

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      Federal judges then instructed outside experts to draft new lines – a move that Alabama officials unsuccessfully appealed to the Supreme Court.