State lawmakers could wrap up work on drawing proposed voting district maps this week, with committee votes and public comment on new political boundaries to follow soon after that. Rusty Jacobs / WUNC Screen shot of a proposed state House district map showing an area including Cumberland County (in yellow), being worked on by House Redistricting Committee co-Chair Rep. Destin Hall (R-Caldwell), on Thursday, Oct. 14, 2021, at the North Carolina General Assembly. At the Duke redistricting conference, Pegden used the image of a beach and said that if most of the grains of a sand on the shore represented a district map comprised of seemingly compact, orderly districts, the final steps of moving a precinct from one district to another is like moving one grain of sand.