WEBVTT NOTE duration:"00:02:37.6500000" NOTE recognizability:0.930 NOTE language:en-us NOTE Confidence: 0.93060774 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:02.196 New at 6 proposed new Senate NOTE Confidence: 0.93060774 00:00:02.196 --> 00:00:04.144 districts are designed to diminish NOTE Confidence: 0.93060774 00:00:04.144 --> 00:00:06.586 the influence of voters of color. NOTE Confidence: 0.93060774 00:00:06.590 --> 00:00:07.658 That accusation came NOTE Confidence: 0.93060774 00:00:07.658 --> 00:00:09.438 repeatedly at a hearing today NOTE Confidence: 0.93060774 00:00:09.440 --> 00:00:11.576 of New State Senate map that NOTE Confidence: 0.93060774 00:00:11.576 --> 00:00:13.358 was released on Tuesday night, NOTE Confidence: 0.93060774 00:00:13.360 --> 00:00:15.030 and that map redraws districts NOTE Confidence: 0.93060774 00:00:15.030 --> 00:00:16.700 to reflect the 2020 census NOTE Confidence: 0.93060774 00:00:16.758 --> 00:00:18.338 but also political desires. NOTE Confidence: 0.93060774 00:00:18.340 --> 00:00:20.120 11 lives of Richards has NOTE Confidence: 0.93060774 00:00:20.120 --> 00:00:21.900 more now from the capital. NOTE Confidence: 0.9255103 00:00:23.360 --> 00:00:25.112 Yeah, the legislature redraws NOTE Confidence: 0.9255103 00:00:25.112 --> 00:00:26.864 districts every ten years, NOTE Confidence: 0.9255103 00:00:26.870 --> 00:00:29.612 ostensibly to cover shifts in population NOTE Confidence: 0.9255103 00:00:29.612 --> 00:00:33.018 in the state over the 10 year period. NOTE Confidence: 0.9255103 00:00:33.020 --> 00:00:36.135 But in this case, the legislature drew NOTE Confidence: 0.9255103 00:00:36.135 --> 00:00:39.158 maps that only came out this week. NOTE Confidence: 0.9255103 00:00:39.160 --> 00:00:41.764 And today voters finally got to NOTE Confidence: 0.9255103 00:00:41.764 --> 00:00:44.870 comment on them for the first time. NOTE Confidence: 0.93193287 00:00:45.880 --> 00:00:47.044 The Princeton grades. NOTE Confidence: 0.93193287 00:00:47.044 --> 00:00:48.984 The Senate committee map as NOTE Confidence: 0.93193287 00:00:48.990 --> 00:00:50.160 an F critics NOTE Confidence: 0.93193287 00:00:50.160 --> 00:00:52.205 accused the Republican majority of NOTE Confidence: 0.93193287 00:00:52.205 --> 00:00:54.697 drawing maps shaped to maintain the NOTE Confidence: 0.93193287 00:00:54.697 --> 00:00:56.617 Republican majority and to diminish NOTE Confidence: 0.93193287 00:00:56.617 --> 00:00:59.291 the strength of voters of color who NOTE Confidence: 0.93193287 00:00:59.291 --> 00:01:01.439 have increased their numbers and clouds NOTE Confidence: 0.93193287 00:01:01.440 --> 00:01:02.996 statewide. These maps take NOTE Confidence: 0.93193287 00:01:02.996 --> 00:01:05.330 from us some of our choices. NOTE Confidence: 0.93193287 00:01:05.330 --> 00:01:07.658 They diminish for many of us, NOTE Confidence: 0.93193287 00:01:07.660 --> 00:01:09.610 some of our opportunities. The NOTE Confidence: 0.93193287 00:01:09.610 --> 00:01:11.812 Republican Senate map has 36 districts NOTE Confidence: 0.93193287 00:01:11.812 --> 00:01:14.670 out of 56 that are majority white, NOTE Confidence: 0.93193287 00:01:14.670 --> 00:01:16.302 Republican Bill Cowsert said NOTE Confidence: 0.93193287 00:01:16.302 --> 00:01:18.620 race was. Only part of the NOTE Confidence: 0.9487339 00:01:18.620 --> 00:01:20.495 formula we're trying to get NOTE Confidence: 0.9487339 00:01:20.495 --> 00:01:21.995 areas that are compact, NOTE Confidence: 0.9487339 00:01:22.000 --> 00:01:23.496 contiguous and our communities NOTE Confidence: 0.9487339 00:01:23.496 --> 00:01:24.618 of interest together, NOTE Confidence: 0.9487339 00:01:24.620 --> 00:01:26.120 regardless of their race, NOTE Confidence: 0.9487339 00:01:26.120 --> 00:01:27.620 unless they're protected by NOTE Confidence: 0.9487339 00:01:27.620 --> 00:01:29.345 law. A nonpartisan analysis of NOTE Confidence: 0.9487339 00:01:29.345 --> 00:01:31.576 the Republican map by a group NOTE Confidence: 0.9487339 00:01:31.576 --> 00:01:33.751 called Fair District Georgia shows NOTE Confidence: 0.9487339 00:01:33.751 --> 00:01:36.199 exactly one Senate district out of NOTE Confidence: 0.9487339 00:01:36.199 --> 00:01:38.119 56 is competitive between the two NOTE Confidence: 0.9487339 00:01:38.120 --> 00:01:40.808 parties. People of color now make up NOTE Confidence: 0.9487339 00:01:40.808 --> 00:01:42.998 half the population of this state, NOTE Confidence: 0.9487339 00:01:43.000 --> 00:01:44.710 and therefore they should make NOTE Confidence: 0.9487339 00:01:44.710 --> 00:01:46.967 up at least half the population NOTE Confidence: 0.9487339 00:01:46.967 --> 00:01:48.847 of the Georgia Assembly. NOTE Confidence: 0.9487339 00:01:48.850 --> 00:01:50.470 And any map that does not NOTE Confidence: 0.9487339 00:01:50.470 --> 00:01:52.130 reflect that it might be legal, NOTE Confidence: 0.9487339 00:01:52.130 --> 00:01:53.490 but it is not ethical. NOTE Confidence: 0.9487339 00:01:53.490 --> 00:01:55.128 How unexpected is it that the NOTE Confidence: 0.9487339 00:01:55.128 --> 00:01:56.766 party in power would try to NOTE Confidence: 0.9487339 00:01:56.766 --> 00:01:58.128 protect itself in this process? NOTE Confidence: 0.9254588 00:01:58.130 --> 00:01:59.768 It is not at all introspective, NOTE Confidence: 0.9254588 00:01:59.770 --> 00:02:01.205 they have the incentive and NOTE Confidence: 0.9254588 00:02:01.205 --> 00:02:03.049 they have the means to do it. NOTE Confidence: 0.9254588 00:02:03.050 --> 00:02:04.410 And it's from historical POV. NOTE Confidence: 0.9254588 00:02:04.410 --> 00:02:05.780 Both parties have done it. NOTE Confidence: 0.9254588 00:02:05.780 --> 00:02:07.145 So this is standard procedure NOTE Confidence: 0.9254588 00:02:07.145 --> 00:02:08.510 when it comes to redistricting. NOTE Confidence: 0.8961735 00:02:09.280 --> 00:02:12.248 Both so the chairman of the Senate NOTE Confidence: 0.8961735 00:02:12.248 --> 00:02:13.520 reapportion committed Reapportionment NOTE Confidence: 0.8961735 00:02:13.583 --> 00:02:15.995 Committee before this three hour hearing. NOTE Confidence: 0.8961735 00:02:16.000 --> 00:02:18.598 Even started said that he expected NOTE Confidence: 0.8961735 00:02:18.598 --> 00:02:21.604 the committee to vote on the new NOTE Confidence: 0.8961735 00:02:21.604 --> 00:02:23.980 map released this week by tomorrow, NOTE Confidence: 0.8961735 00:02:23.980 --> 00:02:26.899 so they are working on an accelerated NOTE Confidence: 0.8961735 00:02:26.899 --> 00:02:30.280 schedule to say the least. Back to you. NOTE Confidence: 0.9251583 00:02:31.110 --> 00:02:31.851 All right, Doug, NOTE Confidence: 0.9251583 00:02:31.851 --> 00:02:33.333 we appreciate you keeping tabs on NOTE Confidence: 0.9251583 00:02:33.333 --> 00:02:34.860 the redrawing of the maps here. NOTE Confidence: 0.9251583 00:02:34.860 --> 00:02:36.100 Certainly an issue that we NOTE Confidence: 0.9251583 00:02:36.100 --> 00:02:37.650 all need to stay tuned into.