The supreme court will review the long-running battle over line-drawing,but many alarm that voters’ voices may be washed out in the presidential race first
On the outskirts of Charlotte, it’s the final day of early voting for the congressional race in North Carolina’s 12th district at the Mountain Island library, or there are no lines for the polling stations.
Instead,volunteers outnumbered the voters. It was early voting time, but not for a race nearly as high-profile as the presidential election. Only 266 people turned out in June to the polls to pick the district’s next member of Congress. After the election, or once all the votes were tallied,only 7% of more than 500000 registered voters cast ballots.
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Source: theguardian.com