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"value": "Wisconsin state Capitol building, \nWisconsin\u2019s dinosaur-shaped legislative district could soon be history.\n\nThe curiously drawn district and other oddities associated with the state\u2019s extreme gerrymandering would be erased in new voting maps passed this week by the Wisconsin Legislature.\n\nA state Supreme Court decision finally forced Wisconsin Republicans to cede an advantage they enjoyed for more than a decade with maps that made the state one of the nation\u2019s foremost examples of gerrymandering.\n Share this article on Twitter Facebook Mail\nA state Supreme Court decision finally forced Wisconsin Republicans to cede an advantage they enjoyed for more than a decade with maps that made the state one of the nation\u2019s foremost examples of gerrymandering.\n\nThe Senate and Assembly voted to adopt voting maps drawn by the office of Gov. Tony Evers, a Democrat. Evers said a week ago that he would sign his redistricting plan into law if passed unchanged by the Legislature, and proponents of fairer maps have encouraged him to do sThe surprising legislative development promises to end a six-month battle in front of the state\u2019s now left-leaning high court, which ruled the GOP maps unconstitutional shortly before Christmas.\n\nThe new design resolves many of the irregularities in the current electoral maps, chief among them the\u00a0\u201cSwiss cheese\u201d appearance\u00a0that stranded some constituents in segments detached from the rest of their districts.\n\nOne of the more obvious examples of partisan artifice was in the northwest corner of the state, in\u00a0the 73rd Assembly District, where the GOP had strategically added Republican areas and subtracted Democratic ones in a plan enacted in 2022. Residents joked the contours came to resemble a Tyrannosaurus rex.\n\nThe maneuver was successful. That year, a Republican won the seat, which had been held by Democrats for 50 years. The new map completely redraws that district and others.\n\n\u201cThe legislature will be up for grabs,\u201d Republican Assembly Speaker Robin Vos said from the floor on Tuesday, the day the vote was taken.\n\n\n\nIf you like this article, please sign up for Snapshot, Portside's daily summary.\nEmail\n(One summary e-mail a day, you can change anytime, and Portside is always free.)\n Leave this field blank\nIn an unusually magnanimous gesture, Vos said, \u201cPains me to say it, but Gov. Evers gets a huge win today.\u201d\n\nEven under the governor\u2019s maps, the GOP is still expected to retain majorities in both chambers, though the party\u2019s advantage would likely be slimmer than the absolute authority it now commands, particularly in the Senate. Currently, the GOP has a supermajority in the Senate and a near supermajority in the Assembly.\n\nVos acknowledged in a news conference that running under Evers\u2019 map is \u201cgoing to be more challenging, there\u2019s no doubt about that.\u201d But, he said, \u201cI still think we can win because we have a better message.\u201d\n\nPrior to the legislative action, justices had been set to select new district maps from a group of proposals, including the one from Evers. Indications were the decision would not be favorable to the GOP.\n\nRather than take their chances, Republicans decided to approve the governor\u2019s maps, which are considered to be \u201cfriendlier\u201d to the GOP than the others when measuring partisan bias and incumbent matchups.\n\nA Marquette University analysis determined that if the 2022 election had taken place under Evers\u2019 maps, it\u2019s likely that Democrats would have won an additional 11 seats in the Assembly and five in the Senate, neither enough to flip control.\n\nNine Senate Democrats voted against Evers\u2019 plan, signaling concerns that the GOP\u2019s approval was a strategic ploy to be followed by a challenge in federal court from a Republican ally. \u201cI am voting no because I do not trust what you guys are up to,\u201d said Sen. Chris Larson, a Milwaukee Democrat.\n\nRead more:\u00a0Wisconsin\u2019s Legislative Maps Are Bizarre, but Are They Illegal?\n\nBut Vos downplayed the likelihood of more court action, telling reporters Tuesday that he preferred to get on with the business of campaigning and talking about ideas with voters. \u201cI think that is a better answer than drawn-out court battles and going through millions of dollars of taxpayer expense when there\u2019s really no need to do so,\u201d he said.\n\nThe Assembly passed the governor\u2019s maps without debate. Only one Democrat voted yes.\n\nDemocrats were unhappy with a provision in the bill that would stall the implementation of the new maps until November \u2014 a move seen to benefit Vos, who is facing a recall effort from constituents on the far right. Democrats also indicated a desire to let the state Supreme Court case play out.\n\nIt was only six months ago that a new justice, Janet Protasiewicz, took office, tilting the court decidedly to the left. During her campaign, which she won in a landslide, she made it clear she would welcome the chance to review the constitutionality of the maps, flatly describing them as \u201crigged.\u201d\n\nA day after her swearing-in ceremony, a maps case landed on the court\u2019s doorstep, brought by 19 Democratic voters. For months after Protasiewicz\u2019s election, Vos threatened to impeach her if she did not recuse herself from the case, claiming her remarks on the campaign trail made her biased. He later abandoned that tactic.\n\nOn Dec. 22, the high court overturned the current maps and ordered the parties to propose new ones. The vote on the decision was 4-3, with Protasiewicz siding with the majority.\n\nThe court hired two academic consultants to analyze the proposals and issue a report evaluating the plans for their conformity to standard districting requirements, including compactness and equal population distribution.\n\nThe consultants found that plans offered by GOP lawmakers and by a conservative policy group constituted \u201cpartisan gerrymanders\u201d and should not be considered.\n\nThe four remaining proposals greenlit by the consultants were submitted by the plaintiffs, Evers\u2019 office, a group of Democratic senators, and a team of mathematicians and data scientists. The consultants \u2014 from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh and the University of California, Irvine \u2014 determined that those four plans were \u201csimilar on most criteria.\u201d\n\nGood-government groups applauded the possibility of a legislative agreement, largely because it brings about stability and a measure of political certainty until the next redistricting process, after the 2030 census. Besides, said Jay Heck, executive director of Common Cause Wisconsin, \u201cThe governor\u2019s maps are pretty darn good.\u201d\n\nOne of the key problems with the current maps, the court concluded, was that the districts had noncontiguous shapes.\n\nThe state\u2019s constitution stipulates that Assembly members must be elected from districts consisting of \u201ccontiguous territory.\u201d Likewise, Senate districts, which are each made up of three Assembly districts, must consist of \u201cconvenient contiguous territory.\u201d\n\nFifty-five of the state\u2019s 99 Assembly districts and 21 of 33 Senate districts contained \u201cdisconnected pieces of territory,\u201d according to the petition presented to the Supreme Court.\n\n\u201cA map can\u2019t be fair if it doesn\u2019t meet the requirements of the constitution,\u201d said Debbie Patel, founder of North Shore Fair Maps, a group of suburban Milwaukee residents who have been fighting for statewide maps that are not skewed in favor of either party.\n\nThe random islands or irregular blobs in the current maps are largely due to the annexation of land over time by cities and villages, resulting in disjointed municipal boundaries.\n\nThe Evers maps and the others under consideration fix that problem.\n\nThe 88th Assembly District, for example, which currently includes eastern portions of Green Bay, has a couple of islands and a hole that would be eliminated under Evers\u2019 plan.\n\nThe district\u2019s current occupant, Republican Rep. John Macco, voted yes Tuesday, even though his home would no longer be within the district\u2019s boundaries. \u201cThey literally carved me out by 581 feet. Intentionally,\u201d he said.\n\nHe expects to have to sell his house and move to compete again there. \u201cI\u2019ll do whatever I have to do to represent the people of the 88th District,\u201d he said in an interview.\n\nIn northwest Wisconsin, Democrats hope they can reclaim the 73rd District under a new map. All four maps under court consideration relegate the \u201cT. rex\u201d to fossil status.\n\nUnder Evers\u2019 iteration, the district would no longer stretch more than 100 miles south from the Minnesota border city of Superior. Instead, it would be more homogeneous, encompassing much of Douglas County, and reach farther east, embracing more of the coastal communities along Lake Superior.\n\n\n\nThe current map, first, shows the 73rd \u201cT. rex\u201d Assembly District, while the new map, second, shows the district\u2019s lines under the governor\u2019s plan. District 73 is in yellow.\u00a0Credit:Maps by ProPublica using Dave's Redistricting/Social Good Fund\n\n\u201cHistorically, you\u2019ll see from voting records, it\u2019s always been blue up here right along the lake,\u201d said Laura Gapske, a Democrat who narrowly lost in 2022 to the district\u2019s current representative, Republican Angie Sapik. Gapske handily carried Douglas County, with 58% of the vote. She\u2019s now running for the Superior School Board.\n\nSapik, who wrote social media posts cheering on the Jan. 6 insurrectionists, has announced her reelection bid. She declined to speak to ProPublica but complained on Facebook in early February that the proposed maps \u201cwould make this district upwards of 65% Dem to 35% Republican. Does that sound like a \u2018Fair Map\u2019 to you?\u201d\n\nOne area where the four maps differed was in how they handled redistricting for territories aligned with Wisconsin\u2019s federally recognized Native American tribes.\n\nThe current GOP map divides four of 10 reservations into multiple Assembly districts, \u201cdisrespecting Tribal communities of interest,\u201d according to a brief filed by the Midwest Alliance of Sovereign Tribes and the Lac du Flambeau tribe in Wisconsin. Lawyers for the tribes have argued that dividing tribal members among different districts dilutes their voting power.\n\nThe Lac du Flambeau tribe and the Midwest Alliance did not favor the governor\u2019s plan, supporting instead a proposal put forward by the group of mathematicians, in which each tribe would have had its own Assembly voting district.\n\nIn its brief, the alliance called the mathematicians\u2019 proposal \u201chands down, the best map for all of Wisconsin, including Wisconsin\u2019s Indian people and communities.\u201d\n\nA spokesperson for Evers told ProPublica in an email that \u201cthe governor\u2019s maps do unite tribal communities in several respects while still complying with constitutionally required criteria to minimize splitting community and county lines.\u201d\n\nThe Wisconsin Fair Maps Coalition, while celebrating the prospect of new maps, is vowing to continue to push for a nonpartisan body, rather than politicians, to handle future redistricting plans.\n\n\u201cThe coalition isn\u2019t done,\u201d said Debra Cronmiller, executive director of the League of Women Voters of Wisconsin, which is part of the coalition. \u201cWe still need a legislative fix. We need an independent commission. We need, likely, a constitutional amendment that would codify that. So our work is not done.\u201d\n\nMegan O\u2019Matz\u00a0is a reporter at ProPublica, where she covers issues out of Wisconsin.\n\nProPublica is an independent, nonprofit newsroom that produces investigative journalism with moral force. We dig deep into important issues, shining a light on abuses of power and betrayals of public trust \u2014 and we stick with those issues as long as it takes to hold power to account.\n\nWith a team of more than 150 editorial staffers, ProPublica covers a range of topics including government and politics, business, criminal justice, the environment, education, health care, immigration, and technology. We focus on stories with the potential to\u00a0spur real-world impact. Among other positive changes, our reporting has contributed to the passage of new laws; reversals of harmful policies and practices; and accountability for leaders at local, state and national levels.\n\nInvestigative journalism requires a great deal of time and resources, and many newsrooms can no longer afford to take on this kind of deep-dive reporting. As a nonprofit, ProPublica\u2019s work is powered primarily through donations. The vast bulk of the money we spend goes directly into world-class,\u00a0award-winning journalism. We are committed to uncovering the truth, no matter how long it takes or how much it costs, and we practice\u00a0transparent financial reporting\u00a0so donors know how their dollars are spent.\n Wisconsin voter supression Gerrymandering voting rights Subscribe to Portside",
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Tony Evers, a Democrat. Evers said a week ago that he would sign his redistricting plan into law if passed unchanged by the Legislature, and proponents of fairer maps have encouraged him to do sThe surprising legislative development promises to end a six-month battle in front of the state\u2019s now left-leaning high court, which ruled the GOP maps unconstitutional shortly before Christmas.</p>\n<p>The new design resolves many of the irregularities in the current electoral maps, chief among them the\u00a0<a href=\"https://www.propublica.org/article/wisconsin-legislative-maps-bizarre-are-they-illegal\">\u201cSwiss cheese\u201d appearance</a>\u00a0that stranded some constituents in segments detached from the rest of their districts.</p>\n<p>One of the more obvious examples of partisan artifice was in the northwest corner of the state, in\u00a0<a href=\"https://www.propublica.org/article/wisconsin-gop-gerrymander-elections-janet-protasiewicz\">the 73rd Assembly District</a>, where the GOP had strategically added Republican areas and subtracted Democratic ones in a plan enacted in 2022. Residents joked the contours came to resemble a Tyrannosaurus rex.</p>\n<p>The maneuver was successful. That year, a Republican won the seat, which had been held by Democrats for 50 years. The new map completely redraws that district and others.</p>\n<p>\u201cThe legislature will be up for grabs,\u201d Republican Assembly Speaker Robin Vos said from the floor on Tuesday, the day the vote was taken.</p>\n<p></p><div class=\"snapshot-mini-form tokens\" data-drupal-selector=\"snapshot-mini-form\" id=\"block-portsidelistservnewslettersubscribeminiform\">\n<form accept-charset=\"UTF-8\" action=\"#snapshot-mini-form\" class=\"form-horizontal\" id=\"snapshot-mini-form\" method=\"post\">\n<p class=\"helper-text\">If you like this article, please sign up for Snapshot, Portside's daily summary.</p><div class=\"subscribe-oneline\"><div class=\"row form-group js-form-item form-item js-form-type-email form-type-email js-form-item-email-address form-item-email-address\">\n<label class=\"col-sm-2 control-label js-form-required form-required\" for=\"edit-email-address\">Email</label>\n<div class=\"form--email col-sm-10 col-lg-8\">\n<input aria-required=\"true\" class=\"form-email required form-control input--text\" data-drupal-selector=\"edit-email-address\" id=\"edit-email-address\" maxlength=\"64\" name=\"email_address\" required=\"required\" size=\"64\" type=\"email\" value=\"\"/>\n</div>\n</div>\n<div class=\"form-group\">\n<input class=\"btn-wide button js-form-submit form-submit btn-portside\" data-drupal-selector=\"edit-submit\" id=\"edit-submit\" name=\"op\" type=\"submit\" value=\"Subscribe\"/>\n</div>\n</div><input class=\"form-control input--text\" data-drupal-selector=\"edit-list-name\" name=\"list_name\" type=\"hidden\" value=\"PORTSIDE-SNAPSHOT\"/>\n<p class=\"helper-text\">(One summary e-mail a day, you can <a href=\"https://portside.org/subscribe\">change anytime</a>, and Portside is always free.)</p><input class=\"form-control input--text\" data-drupal-selector=\"edit-honeypot-time\" name=\"honeypot_time\" type=\"hidden\" value=\"oPJ79Rdgokqc11ar-zwZwkEODDmpj46w9XNBULDGxVM\"/>\n<input autocomplete=\"off\" class=\"form-control input--text\" data-drupal-selector=\"form-f68vwddsz7p8vwk4mty-r6prqhsnrhsyls9q-mup2bo\" name=\"form_build_id\" type=\"hidden\" value=\"form-f68VwddSZ7P8vWk4Mty-R6PRQHSnRHSyls9Q-mUP2bo\"/>\n<input class=\"form-control input--text\" data-drupal-selector=\"edit-snapshot-mini-form\" name=\"form_id\" type=\"hidden\" value=\"snapshot_mini_form\"/>\n<div class=\"zip-textfield js-form-wrapper form-wrapper\" style=\"display: none !important;\"><div class=\"row form-group js-form-item form-item js-form-type-textfield form-type-textfield js-form-item-zip form-item-zip\">\n<label class=\"col-sm-2 control-label\" for=\"edit-zip\">Leave this field blank</label>\n<div class=\"form--textfield col-sm-10 col-lg-8\">\n<input autocomplete=\"off\" class=\"form-text form-control input--text\" data-drupal-selector=\"edit-zip\" id=\"edit-zip\" maxlength=\"128\" name=\"zip\" size=\"20\" type=\"text\" value=\"\"/>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>\n</form>\n</div>\n<p>In an unusually magnanimous gesture, Vos said, \u201cPains me to say it, but Gov. Evers gets a huge win today.\u201d</p>\n<p>Even under the governor\u2019s maps, the GOP is still expected to retain majorities in both chambers, though the party\u2019s advantage would likely be slimmer than the absolute authority it now commands, particularly in the Senate. Currently, the GOP has a supermajority in the Senate and a near supermajority in the Assembly.</p>\n<p>Vos acknowledged in a news conference that running under Evers\u2019 map is \u201cgoing to be more challenging, there\u2019s no doubt about that.\u201d But, he said, \u201cI still think we can win because we have a better message.\u201d</p>\n<p>Prior to the legislative action, justices had been set to select new district maps from a group of proposals, including the one from Evers. Indications were the decision would not be favorable to the GOP.</p>\n<p>Rather than take their chances, Republicans decided to approve the governor\u2019s maps, which are considered to be \u201cfriendlier\u201d to the GOP than the others when measuring partisan bias and incumbent matchups.</p>\n<p>A Marquette University analysis determined that if the 2022 election had taken place under Evers\u2019 maps, it\u2019s likely that Democrats would have won an additional 11 seats in the Assembly and five in the Senate, neither enough to flip control.</p>\n<p>Nine Senate Democrats voted against Evers\u2019 plan, signaling concerns that the GOP\u2019s approval was a strategic ploy to be followed by a challenge in federal court from a Republican ally. \u201cI am voting no because I do not trust what you guys are up to,\u201d said Sen. Chris Larson, a Milwaukee Democrat.</p>\n<aside dir=\"ltr\">\n<p>Read more:\u00a0<a href=\"https://www.propublica.org/article/wisconsin-legislative-maps-bizarre-are-they-illegal\"><strong>Wisconsin\u2019s Legislative Maps Are Bizarre, but Are They Illegal?</strong></a></p>\n</aside>\n<p>But Vos downplayed the likelihood of more court action, telling reporters Tuesday that he preferred to get on with the business of campaigning and talking about ideas with voters. \u201cI think that is a better answer than drawn-out court battles and going through millions of dollars of taxpayer expense when there\u2019s really no need to do so,\u201d he said.</p>\n<p>The Assembly passed the governor\u2019s maps without debate. Only one Democrat voted yes.</p>\n<p>Democrats were unhappy with a provision in the bill that would stall the implementation of the new maps until November \u2014 a move seen to benefit Vos, who is facing a recall effort from constituents on the far right. Democrats also indicated a desire to let the state Supreme Court case play out.</p>\n<p>It was only six months ago that a new justice, Janet Protasiewicz, took office, tilting the court decidedly to the left. During her campaign, which she won in a landslide, she made it clear she would welcome the chance to review the constitutionality of the maps, flatly describing them as \u201crigged.\u201d</p>\n<p>A day after her swearing-in ceremony, a maps case landed on the court\u2019s doorstep, brought by 19 Democratic voters. For months after Protasiewicz\u2019s election, Vos threatened to impeach her if she did not recuse herself from the case, claiming her remarks on the campaign trail made her biased. He later abandoned that tactic.</p>\n<p>On Dec. 22, the high court overturned the current maps and ordered the parties to propose new ones. The vote on the decision was 4-3, with Protasiewicz siding with the majority.</p>\n<p>The court hired two academic consultants to analyze the proposals and issue a report evaluating the plans for their conformity to standard districting requirements, including compactness and equal population distribution.</p>\n<p>The consultants found that plans offered by GOP lawmakers and by a conservative policy group constituted \u201cpartisan gerrymanders\u201d and should not be considered.</p>\n<p>The four remaining proposals greenlit by the consultants were submitted by the plaintiffs, Evers\u2019 office, a group of Democratic senators, and a team of mathematicians and data scientists. The consultants \u2014 from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh and the University of California, Irvine \u2014 determined that those four plans were \u201csimilar on most criteria.\u201d</p>\n<p>Good-government groups applauded the possibility of a legislative agreement, largely because it brings about stability and a measure of political certainty until the next redistricting process, after the 2030 census. Besides, said Jay Heck, executive director of Common Cause Wisconsin, \u201cThe governor\u2019s maps are pretty darn good.\u201d</p>\n<p>One of the key problems with the current maps, the court concluded, was that the districts had noncontiguous shapes.</p>\n<p>The state\u2019s constitution stipulates that Assembly members must be elected from districts consisting of \u201ccontiguous territory.\u201d Likewise, Senate districts, which are each made up of three Assembly districts, must consist of \u201cconvenient contiguous territory.\u201d</p>\n<p>Fifty-five of the state\u2019s 99 Assembly districts and 21 of 33 Senate districts contained \u201cdisconnected pieces of territory,\u201d according to the petition presented to the Supreme Court.</p>\n<p>\u201cA map can\u2019t be fair if it doesn\u2019t meet the requirements of the constitution,\u201d said Debbie Patel, founder of North Shore Fair Maps, a group of suburban Milwaukee residents who have been fighting for statewide maps that are not skewed in favor of either party.</p>\n<p>The random islands or irregular blobs in the current maps are largely due to the annexation of land over time by cities and villages, resulting in disjointed municipal boundaries.</p>\n<p>The Evers maps and the others under consideration fix that problem.</p>\n<p>The 88th Assembly District, for example, which currently includes eastern portions of Green Bay, has a couple of islands and a hole that would be eliminated under Evers\u2019 plan.</p>\n<p>The district\u2019s current occupant, Republican Rep. John Macco, voted yes Tuesday, even though his home would no longer be within the district\u2019s boundaries. \u201cThey literally carved me out by 581 feet. Intentionally,\u201d he said.</p>\n<p>He expects to have to sell his house and move to compete again there. \u201cI\u2019ll do whatever I have to do to represent the people of the 88th District,\u201d he said in an interview.</p>\n<p>In northwest Wisconsin, Democrats hope they can reclaim the 73rd District under a new map. All four maps under court consideration relegate the \u201cT. rex\u201d to fossil status.</p>\n<p>Under Evers\u2019 iteration, the district would no longer stretch more than 100 miles south from the Minnesota border city of Superior. Instead, it would be more homogeneous, encompassing much of Douglas County, and reach farther east, embracing more of the coastal communities along Lake Superior.</p>\n<p><img alt=\"\" height=\"1883\" src=\"https://img.assets-d.propublica.org/v5/images/20240214-73-1_preview_maxWidth_3000_maxHeight_3000_ppi_72_embedColorProfile_true_quality_95.jpg?crop=focalpoint&amp;fit=crop&amp;fm=webp&amp;fp-x=0.5&amp;fp-y=0.5&amp;h=800&amp;q=75&amp;w=800&amp;s=c1fbbfbb7cc2bc4895f01c33f8295564\" width=\"1883\"/><img alt=\"\" height=\"1883\" src=\"https://img.assets-d.propublica.org/v5/images/20240214-73-2_preview_maxWidth_3000_maxHeight_3000_ppi_72_embedColorProfile_true_quality_95.jpg?crop=focalpoint&amp;fit=crop&amp;fm=webp&amp;fp-x=0.5&amp;fp-y=0.5&amp;h=800&amp;q=75&amp;w=800&amp;s=9a4bdd64258f082567cc9d56c98d0064\" width=\"1883\"/></p>\n<p>The current map, first, shows the 73rd \u201cT. rex\u201d Assembly District, while the new map, second, shows the district\u2019s lines under the governor\u2019s plan. 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Tony Evers, a Democrat. Evers said a week ago that he would sign his redistricting plan into law if passed unchanged by the Legislature, and proponents of fairer maps have encouraged him to do sThe surprising legislative development promises to end a six-month battle in front of the state\u2019s now left-leaning high court, which ruled the GOP maps unconstitutional shortly before Christmas.</p>\n<p>The new design resolves many of the irregularities in the current electoral maps, chief among them the\u00a0<a href=\"https://www.propublica.org/article/wisconsin-legislative-maps-bizarre-are-they-illegal\">\u201cSwiss cheese\u201d appearance</a>\u00a0that stranded some constituents in segments detached from the rest of their districts.</p>\n<p>One of the more obvious examples of partisan artifice was in the northwest corner of the state, in\u00a0<a href=\"https://www.propublica.org/article/wisconsin-gop-gerrymander-elections-janet-protasiewicz\">the 73rd Assembly District</a>, where the GOP had strategically added Republican areas and subtracted Democratic ones in a plan enacted in 2022. Residents joked the contours came to resemble a Tyrannosaurus rex.</p>\n<p>The maneuver was successful. That year, a Republican won the seat, which had been held by Democrats for 50 years. The new map completely redraws that district and others.</p>\n<p>\u201cThe legislature will be up for grabs,\u201d Republican Assembly Speaker Robin Vos said from the floor on Tuesday, the day the vote was taken.</p>\n<p></p><div class=\"snapshot-mini-form tokens\" data-drupal-selector=\"snapshot-mini-form\" id=\"block-portsidelistservnewslettersubscribeminiform\">\n<form accept-charset=\"UTF-8\" action=\"#snapshot-mini-form\" class=\"form-horizontal\" id=\"snapshot-mini-form\" method=\"post\">\n<p class=\"helper-text\">If you like this article, please sign up for Snapshot, Portside's daily summary.</p><div class=\"subscribe-oneline\"><div class=\"row form-group js-form-item form-item js-form-type-email form-type-email js-form-item-email-address form-item-email-address\">\n<label class=\"col-sm-2 control-label js-form-required form-required\" for=\"edit-email-address\">Email</label>\n<div class=\"form--email col-sm-10 col-lg-8\">\n<input aria-required=\"true\" class=\"form-email required form-control input--text\" data-drupal-selector=\"edit-email-address\" id=\"edit-email-address\" maxlength=\"64\" name=\"email_address\" required=\"required\" size=\"64\" type=\"email\" value=\"\"/>\n</div>\n</div>\n<div class=\"form-group\">\n<input class=\"btn-wide button js-form-submit form-submit btn-portside\" data-drupal-selector=\"edit-submit\" id=\"edit-submit\" name=\"op\" type=\"submit\" value=\"Subscribe\"/>\n</div>\n</div><input class=\"form-control input--text\" data-drupal-selector=\"edit-list-name\" name=\"list_name\" type=\"hidden\" value=\"PORTSIDE-SNAPSHOT\"/>\n<p class=\"helper-text\">(One summary e-mail a day, you can <a href=\"https://portside.org/subscribe\">change anytime</a>, and Portside is always free.)</p><input class=\"form-control input--text\" data-drupal-selector=\"edit-honeypot-time\" name=\"honeypot_time\" type=\"hidden\" value=\"oPJ79Rdgokqc11ar-zwZwkEODDmpj46w9XNBULDGxVM\"/>\n<input autocomplete=\"off\" class=\"form-control input--text\" data-drupal-selector=\"form-f68vwddsz7p8vwk4mty-r6prqhsnrhsyls9q-mup2bo\" name=\"form_build_id\" type=\"hidden\" value=\"form-f68VwddSZ7P8vWk4Mty-R6PRQHSnRHSyls9Q-mUP2bo\"/>\n<input class=\"form-control input--text\" data-drupal-selector=\"edit-snapshot-mini-form\" name=\"form_id\" type=\"hidden\" value=\"snapshot_mini_form\"/>\n<div class=\"zip-textfield js-form-wrapper form-wrapper\" style=\"display: none !important;\"><div class=\"row form-group js-form-item form-item js-form-type-textfield form-type-textfield js-form-item-zip form-item-zip\">\n<label class=\"col-sm-2 control-label\" for=\"edit-zip\">Leave this field blank</label>\n<div class=\"form--textfield col-sm-10 col-lg-8\">\n<input autocomplete=\"off\" class=\"form-text form-control input--text\" data-drupal-selector=\"edit-zip\" id=\"edit-zip\" maxlength=\"128\" name=\"zip\" size=\"20\" type=\"text\" value=\"\"/>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>\n</form>\n</div>\n<p>In an unusually magnanimous gesture, Vos said, \u201cPains me to say it, but Gov. Evers gets a huge win today.\u201d</p>\n<p>Even under the governor\u2019s maps, the GOP is still expected to retain majorities in both chambers, though the party\u2019s advantage would likely be slimmer than the absolute authority it now commands, particularly in the Senate. Currently, the GOP has a supermajority in the Senate and a near supermajority in the Assembly.</p>\n<p>Vos acknowledged in a news conference that running under Evers\u2019 map is \u201cgoing to be more challenging, there\u2019s no doubt about that.\u201d But, he said, \u201cI still think we can win because we have a better message.\u201d</p>\n<p>Prior to the legislative action, justices had been set to select new district maps from a group of proposals, including the one from Evers. Indications were the decision would not be favorable to the GOP.</p>\n<p>Rather than take their chances, Republicans decided to approve the governor\u2019s maps, which are considered to be \u201cfriendlier\u201d to the GOP than the others when measuring partisan bias and incumbent matchups.</p>\n<p>A Marquette University analysis determined that if the 2022 election had taken place under Evers\u2019 maps, it\u2019s likely that Democrats would have won an additional 11 seats in the Assembly and five in the Senate, neither enough to flip control.</p>\n<p>Nine Senate Democrats voted against Evers\u2019 plan, signaling concerns that the GOP\u2019s approval was a strategic ploy to be followed by a challenge in federal court from a Republican ally. \u201cI am voting no because I do not trust what you guys are up to,\u201d said Sen. Chris Larson, a Milwaukee Democrat.</p>\n<aside dir=\"ltr\">\n<p>Read more:\u00a0<a href=\"https://www.propublica.org/article/wisconsin-legislative-maps-bizarre-are-they-illegal\"><strong>Wisconsin\u2019s Legislative Maps Are Bizarre, but Are They Illegal?</strong></a></p>\n</aside>\n<p>But Vos downplayed the likelihood of more court action, telling reporters Tuesday that he preferred to get on with the business of campaigning and talking about ideas with voters. \u201cI think that is a better answer than drawn-out court battles and going through millions of dollars of taxpayer expense when there\u2019s really no need to do so,\u201d he said.</p>\n<p>The Assembly passed the governor\u2019s maps without debate. Only one Democrat voted yes.</p>\n<p>Democrats were unhappy with a provision in the bill that would stall the implementation of the new maps until November \u2014 a move seen to benefit Vos, who is facing a recall effort from constituents on the far right. Democrats also indicated a desire to let the state Supreme Court case play out.</p>\n<p>It was only six months ago that a new justice, Janet Protasiewicz, took office, tilting the court decidedly to the left. During her campaign, which she won in a landslide, she made it clear she would welcome the chance to review the constitutionality of the maps, flatly describing them as \u201crigged.\u201d</p>\n<p>A day after her swearing-in ceremony, a maps case landed on the court\u2019s doorstep, brought by 19 Democratic voters. For months after Protasiewicz\u2019s election, Vos threatened to impeach her if she did not recuse herself from the case, claiming her remarks on the campaign trail made her biased. He later abandoned that tactic.</p>\n<p>On Dec. 22, the high court overturned the current maps and ordered the parties to propose new ones. The vote on the decision was 4-3, with Protasiewicz siding with the majority.</p>\n<p>The court hired two academic consultants to analyze the proposals and issue a report evaluating the plans for their conformity to standard districting requirements, including compactness and equal population distribution.</p>\n<p>The consultants found that plans offered by GOP lawmakers and by a conservative policy group constituted \u201cpartisan gerrymanders\u201d and should not be considered.</p>\n<p>The four remaining proposals greenlit by the consultants were submitted by the plaintiffs, Evers\u2019 office, a group of Democratic senators, and a team of mathematicians and data scientists. The consultants \u2014 from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh and the University of California, Irvine \u2014 determined that those four plans were \u201csimilar on most criteria.\u201d</p>\n<p>Good-government groups applauded the possibility of a legislative agreement, largely because it brings about stability and a measure of political certainty until the next redistricting process, after the 2030 census. Besides, said Jay Heck, executive director of Common Cause Wisconsin, \u201cThe governor\u2019s maps are pretty darn good.\u201d</p>\n<p>One of the key problems with the current maps, the court concluded, was that the districts had noncontiguous shapes.</p>\n<p>The state\u2019s constitution stipulates that Assembly members must be elected from districts consisting of \u201ccontiguous territory.\u201d Likewise, Senate districts, which are each made up of three Assembly districts, must consist of \u201cconvenient contiguous territory.\u201d</p>\n<p>Fifty-five of the state\u2019s 99 Assembly districts and 21 of 33 Senate districts contained \u201cdisconnected pieces of territory,\u201d according to the petition presented to the Supreme Court.</p>\n<p>\u201cA map can\u2019t be fair if it doesn\u2019t meet the requirements of the constitution,\u201d said Debbie Patel, founder of North Shore Fair Maps, a group of suburban Milwaukee residents who have been fighting for statewide maps that are not skewed in favor of either party.</p>\n<p>The random islands or irregular blobs in the current maps are largely due to the annexation of land over time by cities and villages, resulting in disjointed municipal boundaries.</p>\n<p>The Evers maps and the others under consideration fix that problem.</p>\n<p>The 88th Assembly District, for example, which currently includes eastern portions of Green Bay, has a couple of islands and a hole that would be eliminated under Evers\u2019 plan.</p>\n<p>The district\u2019s current occupant, Republican Rep. John Macco, voted yes Tuesday, even though his home would no longer be within the district\u2019s boundaries. \u201cThey literally carved me out by 581 feet. Intentionally,\u201d he said.</p>\n<p>He expects to have to sell his house and move to compete again there. \u201cI\u2019ll do whatever I have to do to represent the people of the 88th District,\u201d he said in an interview.</p>\n<p>In northwest Wisconsin, Democrats hope they can reclaim the 73rd District under a new map. All four maps under court consideration relegate the \u201cT. rex\u201d to fossil status.</p>\n<p>Under Evers\u2019 iteration, the district would no longer stretch more than 100 miles south from the Minnesota border city of Superior. Instead, it would be more homogeneous, encompassing much of Douglas County, and reach farther east, embracing more of the coastal communities along Lake Superior.</p>\n<p><img alt=\"\" height=\"1883\" src=\"https://img.assets-d.propublica.org/v5/images/20240214-73-1_preview_maxWidth_3000_maxHeight_3000_ppi_72_embedColorProfile_true_quality_95.jpg?crop=focalpoint&amp;fit=crop&amp;fm=webp&amp;fp-x=0.5&amp;fp-y=0.5&amp;h=800&amp;q=75&amp;w=800&amp;s=c1fbbfbb7cc2bc4895f01c33f8295564\" width=\"1883\"/><img alt=\"\" height=\"1883\" src=\"https://img.assets-d.propublica.org/v5/images/20240214-73-2_preview_maxWidth_3000_maxHeight_3000_ppi_72_embedColorProfile_true_quality_95.jpg?crop=focalpoint&amp;fit=crop&amp;fm=webp&amp;fp-x=0.5&amp;fp-y=0.5&amp;h=800&amp;q=75&amp;w=800&amp;s=9a4bdd64258f082567cc9d56c98d0064\" width=\"1883\"/></p>\n<p>The current map, first, shows the 73rd \u201cT. rex\u201d Assembly District, while the new map, second, shows the district\u2019s lines under the governor\u2019s plan. District 73 is in yellow.\u00a0Credit:Maps by ProPublica using Dave's Redistricting/Social Good Fund</p>\n<p>\u201cHistorically, you\u2019ll see from voting records, it\u2019s always been blue up here right along the lake,\u201d said Laura Gapske, a Democrat who narrowly lost in 2022 to the district\u2019s current representative, Republican Angie Sapik. Gapske handily carried Douglas County, with 58% of the vote. She\u2019s now running for the Superior School Board.</p>\n<p>Sapik, who wrote social media posts cheering on the Jan. 6 insurrectionists, has announced her reelection bid. She declined to speak to ProPublica but complained on Facebook in early February that the proposed maps \u201cwould make this district upwards of 65% Dem to 35% Republican. Does that sound like a \u2018Fair Map\u2019 to you?\u201d</p>\n<p>One area where the four maps differed was in how they handled redistricting for territories aligned with Wisconsin\u2019s federally recognized Native American tribes.</p>\n<p>The current GOP map divides four of 10 reservations into multiple Assembly districts, \u201cdisrespecting Tribal communities of interest,\u201d according to a brief filed by the Midwest Alliance of Sovereign Tribes and the Lac du Flambeau tribe in Wisconsin. Lawyers for the tribes have argued that dividing tribal members among different districts dilutes their voting power.</p>\n<p>The Lac du Flambeau tribe and the Midwest Alliance did not favor the governor\u2019s plan, supporting instead a proposal put forward by the group of mathematicians, in which each tribe would have had its own Assembly voting district.</p>\n<p>In its brief, the alliance called the mathematicians\u2019 proposal \u201chands down, the best map for all of Wisconsin, including Wisconsin\u2019s Indian people and communities.\u201d</p>\n<p>A spokesperson for Evers told ProPublica in an email that \u201cthe governor\u2019s maps do unite tribal communities in several respects while still complying with constitutionally required criteria to minimize splitting community and county lines.\u201d</p>\n<p>The Wisconsin Fair Maps Coalition, while celebrating the prospect of new maps, is vowing to continue to push for a nonpartisan body, rather than politicians, to handle future redistricting plans.</p>\n<p>\u201cThe coalition isn\u2019t done,\u201d said Debra Cronmiller, executive director of the League of Women Voters of Wisconsin, which is part of the coalition. \u201cWe still need a legislative fix. We need an independent commission. We need, likely, a constitutional amendment that would codify that. So our work is not done.\u201d</p>\n<p><em class=\"author-id\"><a href=\"https://www.propublica.org/people/megan-omatz\">Megan O\u2019Matz</a>\u00a0is a reporter at ProPublica, where she covers issues out of Wisconsin.</em></p>\n<p><em class=\"publisher\">ProPublica is an independent, nonprofit newsroom that produces investigative journalism with moral force. We dig deep into important issues, shining a light on abuses of power and betrayals of public trust \u2014 and we stick with those issues as long as it takes to hold power to account.</em></p>\n<p><em class=\"publisher\">With a team of more than 150 editorial staffers, ProPublica covers a range of topics including government and politics, business, criminal justice, the environment, education, health care, immigration, and technology. 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