Guilford County Chairman Skip Alston is Muddying up the Redistricting Process for a Losing Proposition

UPDATE: looks like this post is null and void according to Mark Binker from New and Record with a few post out today
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Guilford County Chairman Skip Alston is trying to muddy up the waters with the talk of referendum and also having a 9 member map turned into the Department of Justice(DOJ) along with the 8 member map at the same time.

In the High Point Enterprise on July 26, 2011 this is what was said:

"County Attorney Mark Payne reminded the committee that commissioners can work on 2 tracks. "If there are two plans we should send them at the same time". "

 Here is the problem. When the state made the law to make Guilford County a 9 member board with 8 districts and 1 at large and that they needed a clearence from DOJ in this bill there was no mention of sending any other plans for them to consider. During the Guilford County Redistricting Committee meetings we have been hearing that Skip Alston wants to also send a 9 member map with 2 at large to the DOJ if the citizens of Guilford County will approve a referendum to by pass what was done and to go back to a 11 member board .

I think this talk of a referendum will come up during the August 4th meeting to have them put the referendum on the November election. There is one huge problem in that the City of High Point has their elections in even years and if Skip Alston wants to put this losing proposition on the ballot in November you will probably see plenty of citizens in High Point and also the unincorporated Guilford County not like this one bit going to the polls to vote on one item. I am sure the DOJ will not like this referendum and a City with over 100,000 will only be going to the polls to vote on this one item. What is the cost for doing this?

If we are talking about referendum then let's talk a 7 board member for Guilford County put that on the ballot as well.

From the quote above it seems like they want to completely mess with the process to also add these other maps to the mix where no one has seen or even talked about a 9  plus 2 member map.County Attorney wants to send them both at the same time but to me it needs to be a complete separate avenues for the DOJ and if they do send them together then you will see some objections from me and plenty of other people in this county.

Here is a link to all the maps that have been turned into the Guilford County Legal Department
CLICKHERE in regards to the redistricting process that will have a public hearing tomorrow at the Guilford County Courthouse starting at 5:30pm

Public Hearing Notice - Thursday, July 28 at 5:30 p.m.

The Redistricting Committee of the Guilford County Board of Commissioners hereby gives notice of a public hearing to receive public comments in its efforts to adopt a redistricting plan pursuant to the requirements of the General Assembly in Session Law 2011-172 as well as N.C.G.S. 153A-22. The public hearing shall be held on July 28, 2011 at 5:30 P.M. in the Commissioners Meeting Room located at the Old County Courthouse, 301 W. Market Street, Greensboro, NC.

Guilford County Redistricting Map Turned in by ME to Hopefully Bring A Simple Map That Makes Sense

Guilford County Commissioners 2011 Redistricting Map for 8 District by Keith Brown


also here is a link to the statistics on the 8 member 1 at large districts CLICKHERE
The Guilford County Commissioners are in the process of redistricting every single voter in this county. At the last redistricting meeting Commissioner Kirk Perkins wanted all maps be turned in by today 7-6-2011 to the redistricting meeting at 3:30pm.But during today's meeting he extended the deadline till Friday 7-8-2011 so if you want to get your map in please hurry. Jordan Green at Yes! Weekly will help you in the process if you want help here is a comment by him on that CLICKHERE

As you will see i your humble blogger turned in a map along with statistics on each of the 8 districts under the new state law in regards to having a 8 district and 1 at large map for Guilford County. To make a long story short without getting into all the statistics details here is a synopsis below.

.Let's start with district #1 which is one of the voting rights act district mandated by federal law. This district stretches from High Point through Jamestown and into Greensboro. I am not a fan of splitting municipalities but in this case Jamestown needed to be split because the minority voters in High Point did not reach the 50 % plus 1 level and needed to pick up some of Commissioner Alston's precincts. It was a tough one to draw but hopefully it is ok.

District #2 is one of the faster growing in population areas of Guilford County which is the eastchester drive area of High Point going all the way west to the county line.

District #3 runs from Oak Ridge and down to Jamestown

District #4 mainly runs in the Greensboro area being one of the 3 voting rights act areas of Guilford County

District #5 is the last voting rights act areas which stretches on the eastern side of Greensboro.

District #6 is a big area in regards space in Guilford County and is one of the growth areas that i see in future on where development is going in eastern Guilford County. One aspect that i see happening on plenty of maps is that the town of Pleasant Garden is split between 2 commissioners but under my map they actually are together as one commissioner. Right now 2 commissioners reside in this area but in my making this map i didn't take into consideration where the incumbents live because it should not be a part of the process.  This process of redistricting every 10 years should not be a incumbency protection act in regards to a map.

District #7 is where there is a lot of growth and the representation of Summerfield and Stokesdale along with some northern guilford county residents needed to have representation and i think having this district as you see on the map is good and feasible.

District #8 is made up of a  Greensboro district .

Hopefully you like this map and can say to the Guilford County Commissioners that Keith Brown's map is good and i like it.

If you would like to send a suggestion to the Guilford County Attorney in regards to this please let Mark Payne know you like this map. Here is his e mail,  mpayne@co.guilford.nc.us

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Public Submission for Proposed Maps Redrawing Commissioners' Districts Being Accepted

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UPDATE MORE FROM JORDAN GREEN CLICKHERE

Guilford County Chairman Skip Alston's Gerrymandered Bottlenecks on Redistricting Embedded Pictures

Guilford County Chairman Skip Alston's Gerrymandered Bottlenecks on Redistricting

The above embedded pictures will show you the exact areas that the Chairman Skip Alston is playing this gerrymandering game with the voters in Guilford County in his jig saw puzzle version of a map. Below is the circled red dot areas for these aerial views above.

Chairman Skip Alston Redistricting Map on Precinct Overlay 2011

Then below you will see my map for Guilford County and look at the difference.
Guilford County Commissioners 2011 Redistricting Map for 8 District by Keith Brown

to see all the map and also spreadsheets on the statistics CLICKHERE

Revised Proposed Congressional Dumps 13th in Guilford County and Adds More to 6th in Rep. Howard Coble

Revised Proposed Congressional District 6 NC

Today 7-19-2011 the North Carolina Redistricting Commission came out with a revised Congressional districts and the embedded map above will show you that the 6th district which is now represented by  Rep. Howard Coble will be more up in the northern part of North Carolina. The first round of maps had Guiilford County split between 3 congressional districts and now we see that it is down to 2 congressional which is much better.

If you would like to see all the statistics on the congressinal districts which is now called Rucho-Lewis Congress 2 CLICKHERE

There is also a interactive map which can go down to the street level to see whop is in your district and for the new congressional map please pick the rucho lewis congress 2 plan CLICKHERE

Below is a map of the whole State of North Carolina with the revised Congressional Districts

Alternative Map to Double Bunking Sen. Phil Berger with Sen. Don Vaughan in Guilford County

Alternative Guilford NC Senate Districts


The North Carolina Redistricting Commission came out with their maps for the Congressional House , N.C. Senate and the N.C. House districts all over the state.  Here is a link to the N.C. Redistricting CLICKHERE

We know that Guilford County in regards to the ideal population of the senate seats are sitting on 2.5 senators . It is not close enough to justify having 3 senators solely in Guilford County but as we know now they did a "Double Bunk" with 2 very high profile names in the senate side in Majority Leader from Rockingham County Sen. Phil Berger and Guilford County Sen. Don Vaughan being in the same district #26. Link to map CLICKHERE .

Above you will see a alternative map for Guilford County with a little different approach. First it would not double bunk either Sen. Phil Berger or Sen. Don Vaughan. It would put Berger's district on the northern end of Greensboro then go north to get one area of Stokesdale then go to the eastern side of Guilford County in a area where he already has in his district right now. Then it goes south to the rural area of Guilford County which has a lot in common with the rural areas of Rockingham County. This area ends at the Jamestown area.This would be the Senate District #26.

Now we see the Voting Rights Act(VRA) area in District #28 this is mandated by existing outdated law that needs to be revised or done away with all together, but that is another day and a lot of issues to be dealt with. In the map above we have the sitting Senator Gladys Robinson in the 26th district but as we see from what the commission did is they went down into precinct PG1 to take in her home to be a part of this new district #28 which to me should never happen in regards to redistricting and splitting precincts because so much confusion can be had when you start splitting precincts.Having this (VRA) really makes for some confusing contortions all over this state and in Guilford County. All anyone needs to do is look at our famed Congressional District #12 and #6 which made the Top 10 in worse gerrymandered districts CLICKHERE , thanks for that dubious honor from the past. We might have our own in this new senate seat for N.C. in #27 for such an honor.

We now see that the N.C. Redistricting Commission has made a new Senate seat for Guilford County in #27. Here is a link to the map CLICKHERE . In a nut shell this is one ugly fish hook for Guilford County. If you were to campaign for this district you would have to start in the Northeast corner of Guilford County go all the way to the southern border of this district all the way west to the farthest corner of Guilford County  pass the Voting Rights Act district #28 up through High Point N.C. go towards the Airport then go due east back into Greensboro N.C. This district does not make any sense whatsoever. This map of the new District #27 is not good. Whoever came up with this plan needs to go back to the drawing board.

But as you see above there is a reasonable map that puts Jamestown in with High Point along with Oak Ridge and the western side of Greensboro including Sen. Don Vaughan. This map above is more compact . It actually makes more sense and maybe someone will see this post and talk to your North Carolina Representatives to say to them that i have a alternative to the Senate Districts in Guilford County.

High Point Enterprise on Guilford County Commissioners Redistricting

Guilford County Commissioners 2011 Redistricting Map for 8 District by Keith Brown

High Point Enterprise has a article titled "County Officials Unveil District Maps", CLICKHERE

High Point is part of what Keith Brown, who contributed a map for Triad Watch, calls a fish-hook” strategy making a district that links to Greensboro to form a minority-majority district.

“The Alston plan creates a district that runs from High Point through Jamestown and into Greensboro,” Brown said. “We don’t like that.”

Brown’s plan, and the two other county maps, also take the same district path, but Brown claims his treatment is not as severe.
Read more: High Point Enterprise - County officials unveil district maps


Let me explain a little bit further with this scenario. We have a district that needs to be majority minority because of the voting rights act. In High Point you can only get 44% majority minority and need to be over the 50% plus 1 this means that this district that was in High Point needs to add more people. So the feasible way to go is east to get precincts through Jamestown and into Greensboro.

Doing this from High Point into Greensboro opens the door for the map makers to go under this majority minority district to make a fish hook looking area where some of the southern part of High Point remain in another area for the "High Point Hook" as i call it to happen.

As you see in the map that I turned into the Guilford County Commissioners you do not see me allow this High Point Hook. But if you see plenty of the other maps CLICKHERE it does especially the chairman Skip Alston plan.

Say no to the High Point Hook around the voting rights act majority minority district in High Point

Proposed Final Redistricting Plans for Guilford County Commissioners Sent by the Legal Department

Guilford County Final Proposed Redistricting Plans

the above scribd file is the final proposed redistricting maps sent to the Guilford County Commissioners in regards to the 2011 redistricting process. If you would like to see the link of the Guilford County web site CLICKHERE

What NOT to Say at Redistricting Commission Meeting Jeff Hyde Edition

HAT TIP : The Progressive Pulse CLICKHERE

Jeff Hyde had something to say at last weeks Redistricting Commission meeting after first being called to speak he wasn't there, then came back to the location at GTCC for the second time and Jeff Hyde was in the bathroom . Then finally he had something to say and it was a doozy check out the video at the 25 second mark.  I would like to call this the WHAT NOT TO SAY AT REDISTRICTING COMMISSION MEETING JEFF HYDE EDITION.

UPDATE:

Keith Barber from Yes Weekly CLICKHERE had this to say in his redistricting commission meeting article out in todays edition . Here is more of what jeff Hyde said:

Jeff Hyde of Greensboro praised Republican lawmakers for acting fairly in redrawing the state’s congressional districts.

“They were far more noble in their creating of a congressional map — one that does not lay its allegiance to political party power,” Hyde said. “Rather the map creates 10 districts that balance both Democrats and Republicans. It has created 10 districts that are competitive and fair.”

New Senate District #27 in Guilford County Map Embedded

proposed senate district #27 nc redistricting in 2011


this is the new proposed North Carolina Senate seat #27 for Guilford County. As you can see from the map it makes a complete hook of the City of High Point with a friend of mine tagging this process as the "HIGH POINT HOOK" because our Guilford County Commissioner Skip Alston is also doing the same thing in regards to redistricting of the Guilford County Commissioners here is a link to that story CLICKHERE

We will have some numbers on the 3 districts in a future post but wanted to get out the map for all to see on the new district #27 for Guilford County.

Sen. Phil Berger VS. Sen Don Vaughan Welcome to the New District #26 Map Embedded

proposed senate district #26 nc redistricting in 2011


Look at the new senate district #26 where it looks like a match between Sen. Phil Berger Vs. Sen Don Vaughan. Will be a lot of talk about this map

Guilford County Chairman Skip Alston's Jig Saw Gerrymandered Redistricting Map That Should Be Dead on Arrival

EXHIBIT A

Chairman Skip Alston Proposed Redistricting Map 2011


EXHIBIT B

Chairman Skip Alston Redistricting Map on Precinct Overlay 2011

Above in Exhibit A is the "mystery map" that was turned in to the Guilford County Legal Department from the Chairman of the Guilford County Board of Commissioners Skip Alston.

A 7-9-2011 Greensboro News and Record above the fold headline story titled "Maps Drawn on Party Lines" CLICKHERE . An interesting excerpt:

"Alston said two of the maps he submitted were put together by county staff under his direction. The third, he said, he put together with a group of “political advisers” he declined to name.

“They’re not big players, just some people who know the area and the issues whose opinions I trust,” Alston said. “They’re just an informal advisory committee.”

The Chairman directed the creation of all 3 maps

These mystery people know the area and if you want to see what a GERRYMANDERED JIG SAW REDISTRICTING MAP THAT SHOULD BE DEAD ON ARRIVAL looks like,
take a look at Exhibit A.

Exhibit B is what Alston's map looks like when you add the precincts to the map.

Check out the 6 red circled areas on Exhibit B. This is what a blatantly gerrymandered map looks like where they have to wrap around, barely sliver through to get the desired results.

Looking at the numbered districts in Exhibit A, let's start out by talking about district # 5 where we have the most ridiculous gerrymandered aspect of the whole map.  This district stretches from the most eastern part of Guilford County in the town of Whitsett all the way south and barely underneath High Point precinct 23 to split the City of High Point in half and gerrymander all the way up Eastchester Drive to the intersection of Wendover Avenue. The map in exhibit B shows the 2 red circles where the small sliver of this map draws these citizens into District 5.  They split the Town of Pleasant Garden in half, which if you want to keep communities in a whole district to not disenfranchise, then why split the city in half?

Also in the Skip Alston and his mystery people map is District #2, which stretches all the way up to the Town of Oak Ridge, but as you can see from the map the Town of Oak Ridge is split in half between OR 1 and OR 2 , so now we have 2 smaller municipalities split between commissioners which should be done as little as possible or not done at all. NOTE ( My map that i submitted to the Guilford County Commissioners CLICKHERE is compact and only splits up Jamestown because of the Voting Rights Act to bring the High Point precincts over to have some of the Greensboro majority-minority areas to make them compact and feasible). On my maps Jamestown is split 3 ways which put one Jamestown area with the Adams Farm area while the Jam 5 is put in the southern and southeast district area.

Back to the map  of Chairman Alston's district #2 where we have now a district that should be mainly High Point but goes right to pick up precincts in Greensboro which makes absolutely no sense whatsoever.  So now we could have a situation in High Point where feasibly not one representative could be from the city because #5, #1, and #2 all take in other areas of Guilford County. Wouldn't that be nice to have a City in the top ten in population for North Carolina not have any representative from it's city in county government?

Let's take a closer look at Exhibit A to show you the absurdity of this map. District #5 wraps around #1 to sliver up to split with #2. Then #8 darts north through Greensboro to wrap around #7 and then back up off of battleground to #4 . #3 with just a little area that starts in Greensboro off of Jefferson road that then squeezes down on battleground avenue to a very small area, only to jump into the Stokesdale and Summerfield area of the county and splits Oak Ridge N.C. in half.  Then we have #2 which starts on western side of Guilford County up towards Oak Ridge with the split of Oak Ridge with #2, then east into Greensboro, which makes not one bit of sense.
As you can see from the so called "mystery map" from Skip Alston, with the help from political advisers who want to keep the same non-competitive gerrymandered maps for the next 10 years , this map should be dead on arrival. So in Chairman Alston's own words this map should be "DOA to the DOJ."

It is time for all citizens to speak up about this issue. After seeing this map turned in from the chairman, it is time to fight back for having sensible compact districts in Guilford County, not the absurd complete gerrymandered crap that Skip Alston has thrust upon us.
If you want to see all the maps that have been turned into the Guilford County Legal Department, you will not be able to see them on the Guilford County web site. 

They are still not up.

But you can CLICKHERE for the local GOP maps.

GOP MAP 1
GOP MAP 2
GOP MAP 3
Keith Brown Map
Skip Alston Map
Staff Friendly Map
Staff Market Map

The time is now to let your Guilford County Commissioners know how you feel, and it is also time to let your local municipalities know how you feel about this map, or any of these maps, because it will effect us for the next 10 years or more. Get involved.

Here is a link to the Guilford County web site to let them know how you feel, CLICKHERE

North Carolina District Map Viewer to Help in Finding Out The New Redistricting Boundaries and Where You Live

The North Carolina General Assembly has a great tool to use to see the new boundaries for the redistricting maps that have been proposed from the North Carolina Redistricting Commission. To see where you live and who might be your representative CLICKHERE  then launch viewer. You will then need to zoom down to where you live and then there is a drop down screen named district plans in top right corner which has options for you to choose from which include:

-lewis house vra corrected
-lewis house vra districts
-nc house 2010
-rucho senate vra districts
-nc senate 2010
-rucho-lewis congress 1
-congressional 2010

The newest map that just came out is the rucho-lewis congress 1 . For those in Guilford County you will see that District #6 is Rep. Howard Coble's district, District #12 is Rep. Mel Watt's district and District #13 is Rep. Brad Miller's district.

If you put in the rucho-lewis congress 1 it is very interesting to see just where these boundaries for the districts lie. You can also put the old boundaries like the congressional 2010 as well and you can see just where the new boundaries are compared to the existing boundaries . Fun stuff and enjoy.

North Carolina Congressional Map for District #6 is Out and Embedded in post

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The North Carolina redistricting commission has their maps out for the State of North Carolina. This is the new map for District #6 which is Rep. Howard Coble's district right now. Here is a link to the state redistricting commission web site in regards to the congressional maps CLICKHERE

proposed map of the whole state of nc in regards to the new redistricting for 2011 and the congressional districts.

North Carolina Congressional Map is out for District #12 Embedded in Post

North Carolina Redistricting in 2011 new map for Congressional District 12


The new redistricting commission has come out with the congressional maps for the 13 districts in North Carolina. Embedded above is the map for district #12 which is now held by Rep. Mel Watt. As we can see they kept the completely gerrymamdered district and it looks like more of Greensboro is represented from Charlotte's Mel Watt. Here is a link to the redistricting commission web site on the congressional maps CLICKHERE

proposed map above of the whole state of N.C. in regards to the congressional maps.

North Carolina Congressional Map is out for District #13 Embedded in Post

North Carolina Redistricting New Congressional map for District #13 in 2011

This is the new map out from the North Carolina Redistricting Commission in regards to the 13th District which is now held by Rep. Brad Miller. From a brief glance at this map it seems like the western side of Guilford County will join the Eastern side of Forsyth in becoming a part of this 13th district. Will look further at the ramifications of each new district but enjoy the maps. Here is a link to the state web site on redistricting in regards to the congressional districts  CLICKHERE 

proposed map of whole state of nc congressional above

Guilford County Redistricting Meeting Tomorrow and Linkfest at Guarino's Blog

Guilford GOP redistricting plan

HT: Jordan Green for map above from scribd account on Guilford County GOP redistricting map
Just a friendly reminder that on Wednesday 6-29-2011 at 3:30pm in the blue room at the old guilford county courthouse the second installment of the Redistricting for Guilford County meeting will take place.

As you can see in the top left corner of this blog there is a countdown clock for the number of days that the Guilford County Commissioners have to present the map for a 9 member board of commissioners with a 8 district and 1 at large make up. The countdown clock has 48 days left before they need to turn the map into the Department of Justice for approval.

We also have a new category over at Guarino's blog titled "Redistricting Guilford" CLICKHERE which has plenty of post on this subject .

Redistricting and The Voting Rights Act Map for Guilford County and District #28

NC Senate proposed map for District 28 for Guilford County VRA

Above you will see the map proposed by the Chairman of the Senate Redistricting Commission in Sen. Rucho. This map shows Guilford County's Senate District #28 which is the Voting Rights Act district made up of majority- minority constituents.It looks like from the maps they stretched it to split a precinct to have Senator Robinson PG1 be a part of this majority minority district in the pleasant garden area.

You will also see that it looks like Senator Don Vaughan who is from G18 on the map will probably be in another district. As TRIADWATCH has stated in the past  CLICKHERE it might be the case that you will see a more heavily republican tint to the district in Guilford County. We will see when all the maps come out but as this maps indicates it seems like we might see more Republican voters actually be voting in a district in Guilford County  and not voting for a senator from another county in Sen. Phil Berger from Rockingham County or Sen. Stan Bingham from Davidson County.

Redistricting for the State of North Carolina and New Meeting in Regards to the Voting Rights Act of 1965

Below you will see meeting times and also a joint letter in regards to the upcoming redistricting of the whole state of North Carolina and the issues in regards to the counties in N.C. who are under  the Voting Rights Act of 1965.  Here is a link to the redistricting page for North Carolina along with the areas with a map in regards to the Voting Rights Act. You will see that Guilford County will have 3 minority majority districts and with that we will see a complete shake up of the other house districts in Guilford County. Mark Binker from the Greensboro News and Record CLICKHERE thinks that Rep. Pricey Harrison and Rep. Magie Jeffus will be put in the same district. We also hear that the whole maps of the state will not come out till July but with this meeting next week we will see the lawyers and political operatives ramp up for these meetings on thursday.

HOUSE MAPS CLICKHERE
SENATE MAPS CLICKHERE

SENATE
NOTICE OF JOINT COMMITTEE MEETING
Public Hearing

The Senate and House Committees on Redistricting will meet at the following time:

Thursday
June 23, 2011
3:00 – 9:00 p.m.
See Below

The following is a list of the next scheduled Redistricting Public Hearings for the following seven (7) counties. A link for directions is listed under each location.

Registration for speaking will begin:

1) At the hearing site: 1 hour prior to the convening of the hearing, and will close prior to the beginning of the hearing.

2) On-line: 5 days in advance of the hearing and will close 24 hours in advance of the hearing. There are limited slots for on-line sign-up. Please visit the following link to sign-up to speak at any of the locations for the June 23rd Public Hearing: http://www.ncleg.net/applications/rts/Redistricting.aspx?id=19.

3) Each speaker will be limited to five minutes.

4) To view the Veteran’s Rights Act districts being proposed by the joint House and Senate Redistricting Committee leadership, visit http://www.ncleg.net/redistricting.

Locations:
Wake County
History Museum, First Floor Auditorium
5 East Edenton Street
Raleigh, NC 27601-1011
http://ncmuseumofhistory.org/pav/GenInfoPAV.html

Cumberland County
Fayetteville Technical Community College
142 Health Technologies Center
2201 Hull Road
Fayetteville, NC 28303
http://www.faytechcc.edu/pages/FTCCTextDirections.asp

Guilford County

Guilford Technical Community College,
Jamestown Campus, Learning Resource Center (Library) Room 325
601 High Point Road
Jamestown, NC 27282
http://www.gtcc.edu/campusInfo/index.html

Mecklenburg County

The University of North Carolina at Charlotte
J. Murrey Atkins Library Room 143
9201 University City Blvd,
Charlotte, NC 28223-0001
http://www.uncc.edu/directions

New Hanover County
UNC Wilmington
Education Building Room 266
601 S. College Road,
Wilmington NC 28403
http://www.uncw.edu/ba/directions_uncw.htm

Pitt County
East Carolina University
The Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University
Brody Medical Sciences Building, Room # 2E
600 Moye Blvd
Greenville, NC 27834
www.ecu.edu/cs-dhs/dhs/directions.cfm

Hertford County
Roanoke-Chowan Community College
Jernigan Building Room 126
109 Community College Road
Ahoskie, NC 27910
http://www.roanokechowan.edu/directions.htm

ISS - Southern states seek end run around Justice Department over redistricting

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North Carolina Republican Party strategy in regards to redistricting has been exposed. Will it work?

OUR VIEW: Seven-member board would better serve us, High Point Enterprise on Guilford County Redistricting

OUR VIEW: Seven-member board would better serve us: "Back before the 1980s, the Guilford County Board of Commissioners was functioning sufficiently with just five board members. But because of population growth and desires for racial diversity on the..."