TALLAHASSEE — Florida’s newly drawn congressional districts will remain intact, a Tallahassee judge ruled Tuesday.
Judge Joshua Hawkes of the Leon Circuit Court rejected the push from two voting rights organizations and a group of voters to strike down the map drawn up by an aide for Gov. Ron DeSantis and passed by the GOP-led Legislature.
Common Cause and Equal Ground Education Fund argued the map was drawn to help Republicans gain seats in the U.S. House during the midterm elections, and pointed to the statements from DeSantis’ aide, Jason Poreda, who drew the districts that he used partisan data during the process.
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