"It appears, and I emphasize appears" I wrote in the prior update on the House and the Senate have the same plans. -- They are very different!

In the update to the previous post, I noted: "It appears, and I emphasize appears, that the state House and Senate have a common map, these being the above, since no others are on record."

As we all know so well, things are no always as they appear.

The AP is reporting:

Statehouse Republicans began a move to reshape Georgia's congressional map Tuesday -- floating a pair of plans that retool districts the G-O-P has criticized for years.

Senate and House leaders unveiled drastically different plans, which would have to work their way through both chambers in the final half of the Legislature's 40-day session.

Both would make Georgia's 13 districts more compact and would likely also lead to more Republicans in Congress.

Democrats quickly criticized the plan as a way to help the G-O-P, not make districts fairer. Representative Carolyn Hugley of Columbus, who chaired the House redistricting committee until Republicans took control this year, said the current maps have withtood court challenge and there is no need to us public resources to draw new ones.

The current maps were drawn in 2001 when Democrats controlled the statehouse. They acknowledged that they designed the districts to help them elect more Democrats to Congress.

Federal judges rejected, and ultimately redrew, state House and Senate plans -- saying they violated the Constitution's one-person, one vote provision. The congressional map was allowed to stand, although Republicans complained that it, too, was unfair.

Currently, the state has seven Republican and six Democratic members of Congress.
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I will try to find out more on the Senate maps.