Suit alleges county map unfair to Dems

Continued from Page 1 treme partisan gerrymander that carves apart Plainview and other communities across the 16th Legislative District,” Drucker previously said. “This is not about the political fate of one person over another – it is much more significant. This is a brazen attempt to dilute and render irrelevant the voices of all Democrats residing in the 16th District and it must not stand.”

Legislator Josh Lafazan will also be pushed into the 16th Legislative District, represented by Drucker, according to the map. Other changes to North Shore areas include the expansion of the 10th District into Munsey Park, Plandome and Plandome Manor.

The lawsuit cites the same grievances Democratic legislators previously expressed, attributing the reason for the suit to a favoring of the Republican Party with the purpose of ensuring a permanent GOP majority through the new district map.

The parties bringing suit say that the new map achieves this Republican advantage by consolidating Democratic voters into two districts and by diluting their vote in three other districts. They say this mainly takes place in communities of color, such as Valley Stream and Lakeview.

“Republican lawmakers drew political maps that provide them personal political advantages while disenfranchising communities of color throughout the county,” Nassau County Democratic Chairman Jay Jacobs said. “Every voter is entitled to equal representation under federal and state laws regardless of their race, ethnic- ity, religion or political affiliation, and the Nassau Democratic Committee intends to fight until such representation is achieved.”

The parties bringing forward the lawsuit say that the new county legislative map was compared to 10,000 computer-simulated maps that complied with the New York Municipal Home Rule Law requirements. This was done to de-