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what matters and why. Hey everybody, welcome to left, right, and center. I am David Green. So we are

deep into a midterm election year. And yet, and yet, many voters are not even sure what district

they're going to be in and who they might be voting for.

Is that a problem in our democracy?

Well, neither party seems to think so.

The aggressive push to redraw congressional maps to maximize your party's chances this fall

shows no sign of slowing down.

The latest push comes after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down parts of the Voting Rights Act.

The court said, yes, you can create districts to ensure representation based on race, but only if it's shown there was racist intent when a congressional map was previously drawn.

With that, the court invalidated how Louisiana created two majority black districts.

Republicans in Louisiana jumped on the case,

planning now to eliminate one of those districts, likely adding a Republican to Louisiana's delegation.

The state even postponed this weekend's congressional primaries to make time to redraw the map,

and they are not the only ones. Tennessee and Missouri redid maps for their primaries in August,

as did Alabama, whose primary

was supposed to be next Tuesday. This is the state's Attorney General Steve Marshall.

Alabama originally drew its maps around geography and communities, the Gulf Coast, the black

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