CNN: Wisconsin voter hopes Supreme Court will revolutionize map drawing
Wisconsin voter Helen Harris says she hopes an upcoming Supreme Court case will revolutionize the way state and county legislators draw district maps and bring an end to a political practice she believes has gone amok.
At issue is partisan gerrymandering -- or the length to which legislators go when they manipulate district lines for partisan advantage.
Harris, a plaintiff in the case, has studied tortured district maps, she's pored over legal briefs replete with raw data and mathematical calculations and she believes it all boils down to one thing: an individual's right to vote.
"I feel like I'm no longer represented," she said in an interview.
Harris and other voters, represented by the Campaign Legal Center, are challenging maps drawn in Wisconsin that they believe were drawn unconstitutionally to benefit Republicans.
Last fall, they won a groundbreaking case when a lower court held that that Wisconsin's redistricting plan was "intended to burden the representational rights of Democratic voters throughout the decennial period by impeding their ability to translate their votes into legislative seats."