North Carolina’s new voting maps could be in trouble.
The U.S. Department of Justice is expected to announce this week whether the maps have their approval as required by the Voting Rights Act.
But on Monday, it was discovered that a software glitch in one of the programs used to draw the maps left thousands of voters off the maps entirely. In the House maps, more than 5,700 voting blocks were not assigned to districts. The Senate map missed 3,200 blocks.
The errors affect nearly half the districts in each chamber. (Read more)
