A new study released Thursday finds gerrymandering in North Carolina resulted in reduced access to health care services.

This comes during a political tug-of-war as Republican and Democratic states around the country, including North Carolina, undergo mid-decade redistricting.

The result is a major increase in gerrymandering, which is the redrawing of legislative district boundaries to favor one political party over another. North Carolina is one of the most gerrymandered states in the country.

The repeated redrawing of the state’s congressional maps has triggered a torrent of lawsuits, some with success, others not.

The U.S. Supreme Court has said political gerrymandering is legal.

Racial gerrymandering is sometimes difficult to prove, and the Supreme Court is also currently consider

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