Morning Digest: Blue-trending Georgia county must re-do elections using GOP gerrymander

_{The Morning Digest is compiled by David Nir, Jeff Singer, and Stephen Wolf, with additional contributions from the Daily Kos Elections team.}

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● Cobb County, GA Board of Commissioners: A Georgia court ruled on Thursday that the Democratic-run Cobb County Board of Commissioners violated the state constitution by adopting its own district map for the 2022 elections to replace a gerrymander that Republican state lawmakers enacted for this diverse county with nearly 800,000 residents in Atlanta's suburbs. Elections will be postponed for the two districts that were up this year, necessitating special elections with new primaries, likely in 2025.

The county Board of Elections chair indicated that the board likely won't appeal, meaning the GOP's gerrymander will take effect. Democrats ended 36 years of GOP rule in 2020 by winning a 3-2 majority consisting of three Black women, while both Republicans are white. However, the ruling could temporarily cost Democrats that majority in a county that Joe Biden won 56-42 and has rapidly been moving leftward over the past decade.