The VA Supreme Court is appointed by the legislature which has often been R controlled lately. This ruling was apparently purely split on party lines
Note that Alabama’s primaries are next week. It looks like they’re going to hold them, void the results, and then re-run them.
I suspect the chart fails to consider effects like the expected consequences of general voter disgruntlement with the current situation in the US impacting the electability of Republicans.
all the more reason to give up voting as a meaningful exercise (after the last few election cycles, I no longer judge people who don’t vote)
I’ll judge them with my judgy mcjudge-eyes for all time as the enablers of the fall of democracy.
There is still occasionally value in voting in the primaries, although there are other cans of worms when it comes to how they function in different states.
(And thanks for causing me to remember that I need to update my voter registration so I can vote in the Dem primaries this year.)
EDIT: Damnit, I misremembered the deadline. It’s 3 months, not 90 days, to change party affiliations in Connecticut to be eligible to vote in the primaries (since I forgot to disaffiliate after the last primary).
Today is 90 days until the primary. Monday was the actual deadline. I of course didn’t realize the error in memory until after I submitted an updated registration…so I’m locked out of voting in either primary.
That’s a shame because it looks like the primary race for Connecticut’s first congressional district is potentially competitive. (The incumbent lost the party nomination at convention, but qualified for a vote in August.)
When you can’t gerrymander county elections, remember you can always change the rules exclusively for the counties you don’t like. County elections in 5 of Georgia’s 159 counties are now required to be non-partisan so voters don’t know the party affiliations of the candidates, ostensibly for security b/c of the SuperBowl and Olympics (I don’t see how that is relevant, nor does the bill have an expiration date post Olympics). But in the 154 counties with Republican majorities, the voters are still allowed to see party affiliations. It’s just the 5 counties with black DA’s who might want to run for re-election that are affected.
I posted elsewhere about this here when it was just a bill. Seems ludicrous that in the counties you are losing you can force the elections you are losing to be nonpartisan, but keep partisan elections in the counties you are winning. There will be legal challenges. Might make SCOTUS, which will rule you can vote Republican or vote nonpartisan where only conservatives are permitted to run.
Testimony given at a hearing on Louisiana redistricting.
I’m not surprised and it’s very understandable, but this is also not a good thing:
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/14/house-democrats-redistricting-hardball-00920090