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Latest Fact-Checks In Redistricting

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Ted Budd
Ted Budd
stated on March 21, 2022 a tweet
“Pat McCrory appointed the ‘Republican’ judge who sided with Democrats in the partisan Democrat lawsuit/power-grab over redistricting.”
Mostly False
By Paul Specht • March 29, 2022
Deb Butler
Deb Butler
stated on January 12, 2022 a tweet
Says the “NC appeals court” acknowledged the state’s election maps “are skewed,” but didn’t block them because they are “partisan hacks.”
Mostly False
By Paul Specht • January 21, 2022
Janet Bewley
Janet Bewley
stated on November 5, 2021 News release
“Wisconsin is almost equally divided on partisan lines” and therefore new Legislative maps could be drawn to “represent that 50-50 split.”
Mostly False
By Madeline Heim • November 23, 2021
Tom Cotton
Tom Cotton
stated on October 21, 2021 a tweet
The newly drawn congressional district map in Arkansas “keeps communities together.”
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • October 22, 2021
JB Pritzker
JB Pritzker
stated on June 3, 2021 a TV interview
Illinois Republican lawmakers “have argued that they want an independent [redistricting] commission, but they didn't do anything about it.”
Mostly False
By Kiannah Sepeda-Miller • June 11, 2021
Robin Hayes
Robin Hayes
stated on January 10, 2018 Press release
"A ‘gerrymander’ is by definition and common understanding, a strange looking ‘monster’ drawing. This map is clearly not that."
Mostly False
By Paul Specht • January 10, 2018
Renee Ellmers
Renee Ellmers
stated on May 19, 2016 a debate on WRAL
Because George Holding doesn’t live in the congressional district he’s running for, he "doesn’t experience the same things that we are all experiencing."
Mostly False
By Will Doran • June 3, 2016
Paul Ryan
Paul Ryan
stated on September 2, 2014 a speech
After the 2012 redistricting, Wisconsin has competitive congressional districts.
Mostly False
By James B. Nelson • October 1, 2014
Voters First Ohio
Voters First Ohio
stated on September 25, 2012 a news story
Says the NAACP's Ohio chapter has endorsed Issue 2.
Mostly False
By Joe Guillen • November 1, 2012
Nina Turner
Nina Turner
stated on December 30, 2011 a news release
Says that after she declared her candidacy for Congress, "the redistricting process was manipulated to allow incumbent politicians to guarantee their re-election."
Mostly False
By Henry J. Gomez • January 10, 2012
Alan Hays
Alan Hays
stated on October 18, 2011 a Senate committee meeting
Proof of citizenship isn't necessary before you register to vote in Florida.
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • November 4, 2011
Alan Hays
Alan Hays
stated on July 13, 2011 a public hearing about redistricting
"The Florida Legislature has not filed a lawsuit to fight Amendments 5 and 6."
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • July 20, 2011
Robert Brown
Robert Brown
stated on May 17, 2011 an interview
"We in the Democratic Party had no input into the locations of these hearings, nor did we have input into the process."
Mostly False
By Eric Stirgus • June 6, 2011
Rush Limbaugh
Rush Limbaugh
stated on May 18, 2011 his radio program.
Says Rick Perry is "the guy that tracked" down Democratic legislators who fled Texas in 2003.
Mostly False
By W. Gardner Selby • May 28, 2011