The Georgia legislature adopted a new congressional map Thursday that will likely keep the state’s partisan split following a court decision earlier this year invalidating the state’s prior map as discriminatory under the Voting Rights Act.
The state Senate passed the map earlier this week that appears to maintain nine Republican-leaning and five Democratic-leaning districts, and the state General Assembly voted 98-71 to pass it Thursday. The plan now heads to Republican Gov. Brian Kemp for his signature.
The state faces a Dec. 8 deadline to finalize a new map before Judge Steve C. Jones of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia said he would have an outside expert draw one.
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