North Carolina lawmakers began floating proposed voting maps late Tuesday—the latest move in the GOP’s effort to comply with a state Supreme Court order calling for fairer legislative and congressional lines. Whatever the finalized maps become are likely to boost Democrats’ prospects heading into the 2022 election, though the boost may be short-lived if Republican lawmakers gain a conservative Supreme Court majority in November or if they successfully appeal the state Supreme Court’s decision to the U.S. Supreme Court. Republican state lawmakers have insisted that they did not look at partisan or racial data when drawing districts—a claim that cannot be proven because map-makers used so-called “concept maps” unseen by the public to draw parts of their state House map.