CORRECTION: We need another amendment
State legislatures were stripped of the reason to choose Senators for a reason.
The last sentence in paragraph two of the post should read: “If that happens, the North Carolina Congressional delegation will be made up of eleven Republicans and three Democrats in a state that splits down the middle in statewide elections,” not “ten Democrats.”
My apologies.
Thomas Mills
Thomas,
Trouble with pesky constitutional amendments are the steps one has to go through to even get one on a state ballot. :-(
See https://www.ncleg.gov/Laws/Constitution/Article13 which is actually shorter than one might expect, and oddly enough fairly understandably :-)
There are two ways to go about it. Either way is slower than a newly married couple successfully birthing two, maybe actually three, siblings through two separate pregnancies.
The quickest of the two requires a 3/5 majority in both Houses of our Legislature agreeing on the text of the amendment(s) and submitting said verbiage to the voters. If passed, said amendment(s) would go into effect the next January, unless said honorables designate a later date.
My bet is we'll see snow, several inches, in Hatteras before an amendment on gerrymandering might happen :-(
I support the optimism of North Carolina having ten Democratic Congressmen.