A Leon County judge should draw a new congressional map instead of using one the Legislature crafted in a special session earlier this month, a group of voters and voting-rights organizations said in a filing Monday.
Lawyers for the individual voters and the organizations, who sued to get a 2012 redistricting plan struck down, argue that lawmakers haven’t done enough to respond to Circuit Judge Terry Lewis’ decision that the initial boundaries violated the Florida Constitution’s ban on political gerrymandering.
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