Daughter of Deceased GOP Strategist Releases His Hidden Gerrymandering Files

This appeared in The Millennial Source

In 2018, prominent Republican political strategist Thomas Hofeller passed away, leaving behind over 70,000 secret files and emails.

When their existence became known, Hofeller’s former consulting firm, Geographic Strategies, waged a legal fight to keep the files hidden from public eye. However, on January 5, 2020, Hofeller’s daughter, Stephanie, released many of them online.

The files in question are considered central to the legality of GOP political maps in North Carolina. The voting district maps in North Carolina, which determine where individual votes are counted within the state, have been heavily altered by gerrymandering .

It is also believed that Hofeller was a key consultant for a citizenship question that the Trump administration unsuccessfully sought to include on this year’s national census.

Who is Thomas Hofeller?

Prior to his death, Hofeller was largely an unseen figure in the GOP.

As the New Yorker stated in their profile of him, Hofeller valued secrecy and advocated it to others in his party. The same profile labeled him as the “master of the modern gerrymander”.