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NC Congressional Districts Change

WUNC News | By Frank Stasio
Published February 19, 2016 at 12:29 PM EST
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The North Carolina legislature votes today on new congressional district maps. The move is required by a ruling of the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals that declared the current districts unconstitutional because of racial gerrymandering.

Lawmakers are expected to move the primary date for the congressional races from March 15 to June 7 and reopen the filing period for those races. The measure also calls for the elimination of runoff elections. A conversation about redistricting with North Carolina Central University professor of law April Dawson and WUNC capitol reporter Jorge Valencia

Host Frank Stasio talks with North Carolina Central University professor of law April Dawson and WUNC capitol reporter Jorge Valencia about the latest.

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Frank Stasio
Longtime NPR correspondent Frank Stasio was named permanent host of The State of Things in June 2006. A native of Buffalo, Frank has been in radio since the age of 19. He began his public radio career at WOI in Ames, Iowa, where he was a magazine show anchor and the station's News Director.
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