Daley, who traveled to North Carolina from Massachusetts, was due to speak at a post-race rally about the issues raised in his 2016 book, Ratf**ked. “North Carolina is particularly known for gerrymandering,” said Alana Pierce, president of the League of Women Voters of Asheville-Buncombe County, which organized the 5K run. The US supreme court has recently excoriated North Carolina for this. “It’s fundamentally messing with democracy,” said Pierce, adding that the state legislature is now considering gerrymandering districts for judicial and city elections in the state as well. “Democrats must have been asleep at the wheel when the Republicans took this gerrymandering to a whole new level,” he said.

Source: The Guardian November 05, 2017 12:00 UTC