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“NJ Justices Nix Redistricting Challenge, Draw Rare Dissent”

Bloomberg

“The New Jersey Supreme Court rejected a challenge to municipal political district drawing, short-circuiting litigation that could have led to a wave of redistricting lawsuits across the state.

The divided court ruled that judges need not consider mathematical formulas or community cohesion when deciding if a political district meets the state’s mandate for ‘compactness.'”

Divided decisions are apparently rare for the NJ Supreme Court. The case involved a challenge to the drawing of Jersey City wards, “with challengers claiming that the addition of wealthy high-rise residents into a low-income ward diluted the power of poor residents to elect a candidate that championed additional low-income housing.”

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States’ Concerted Efforts to Curb Election Misinformation

Cecilia Kang, N.Y. Times, reports on efforts in several states to combat election misinformation in advance of November. The focus will be on unfounded rumors and lies about voting and election fraud. Connecticut “plans to spend nearly $2 million on marketing to share factual information about voting, and to create its first-ever position for an expert in combating misinformation” whose job will be to “to comb fringe sites like 4chan, far-right social networks like Gettr and Rumble and mainstream social media sites to root out early misinformation narratives about voting before they go viral, and then urge the companies to remove or flag the posts that contain false information.” Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, and Oregon are working on similar initiatives.

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