This shouldn't be a surprise.
[h=1]Hofeller files: Lawmakers lied to federal court in 2017, preventing NC from getting special election[/h]
http://www.ncpolicywatch.com/2019/0...-preventing-nc-from-getting-special-election/
The 2011 North Carolina legislative maps are among the largest racial gerrymanders ever encountered by a federal court, and the state could have held a special election under new voting districts, but GOP lawmakers lied about needing more time to draw them, according to documents from deceased mapmaker Tom Hofeller.
It turns out the maps had been drawn all along and the “public” process the legislature put on at the time was a sham.
“In July 2017, legislative defendants convinced the federal district court in [
North Carolina v.]
Covington not to order special elections under new remedial maps in 2017, based on legislative defendants’ repeated statements that they had not yet started drawing new districts at all and needed sufficient time to develop criteria, draft the plans, and receive public input,” states a court motion filed Thursday in Wake County Superior Court. “The Hofeller files reveal that Dr. Hofeller had in fact already substantially completed drawing the 2017 plans in June 2017 before legislative defendants stated the process had even begun and a month and a half before the adopted criteria were even introduced and adopted.”
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In addition to lying about the maps not having been drawn, the legislative defendants told the federal court and the public that neither they nor Hofeller had any racial data on the new districts being developed.
“They said that ‘data regarding the race of voters … was not even loaded into the computer used by the map drawer to construct the districts,’” states Thursday’s motion. “The Hofeller files reveal that Dr. Hofeller had data on the racial composition of the proposed districts in every one of his draft maps, including drafts prepared after he was formally retained by legislative defendants.”