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An excellent dive into how one district was customized for the incumbent senator, and how that works statewide. Voting rights advocates heavily quoted include the League of Women Voters of South Carolina.

Current Senate districts intentionally make districts homogenous, depriving our general election votes of meaning. This exaggerates partisan differences between districts, a pattern that feeds deadly polarization. Our League maps, with their substantial reduction in very exaggerated vote imbalances, much more accurately reflect our communities. Representation in the South Carolina Senate based on our maps would be very healthy for our state and nation.

The South Carolina State Conference of the NAACP and voters, who are represented by the American Civil Liberties Union, are challenging the state for its inaction. The League of Women Voters, for instance, published its own redistricting maps on the group’s website in September. The site even features a video detailing how the maps should be drawn to best represent the Palmetto State’s residents at the state and federal levels.