Before a single district map is drawn, members of Charlotte city council's committee on redistricting are at odds over the process. Republican Ed Driggs appeared on WCNC's Flashpoint with committee chair Malcolm Graham, a Democrat on the council.
Driggs accused Graham of holding a vote on the criteria involved in redistricting without Driggs, the lone Republican on the committee, present.
The issue echoes a similar decades-long debate at a statewide level about redistricting and gerrymandering, but with the opposite power dynamic: democrats complain republicans strategically limit democratic strongholds in drawing new districts.
