After decrying Republican election rigging, Democrats embrace it in New York

Democrats propose new redistricting maps that would give the party three additional seats in Congress

New York Democrats are plowing ahead with an aggressive effort to rig the state's electoral maps to give the party as many as three additional seats in Congress, a move that comes as the party has denounced similar Republican-led efforts in other states as anti-democratic.

Democrats currently have a 19-8 advantage in New York's delegation to the US House of Representatives. Their proposed districts, unveiled on Sunday, would give them up to three additional seats, increasing their advantage to 22-4. (There is one fewer seat overall in New York because of population shifts.)