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Rachel Leingang

Georgia’s Republican governor calls for special session to redraw electoral maps

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp in a navy suit and red tie gestures while speaking at a microphone.
Brian Kemp in Athens, Georgia, in August 2023. Photograph: Hyosub Shin/AP

The Republican governor of Georgia called a special session for next month to redraw electoral maps, the latest southern state to initiate new map-making after the US supreme court’s dismantling of the Voting Rights Act.

Brian Kemp announced the special session, which will start on 17 June, on Wednesday. It will focus on “enacting, revising, repealing, or amending” district lines for the state legislature and congressional district, in light of the supreme court’s decision in Louisiana v Callais.

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