we have to have -- corinne brown may have to do without some of those african-american votes. it would be unfair to give her a district without any. this would be a complicated thing, this can't go on. last year, greg abbott, attorney general of texas filed a brief and said we in texas, we definitely divided our lines so that we would politically benefit republicans, but we didn't do it for racial reasons. so we shouldn't be in trouble. so texas is kind of similar. there's more republicans but it is still not as imbalanced, the congressional delegation is 24 and 12 republican. this has gone on around the country, especially after the landslide of 2010. there's going to be some carving back, and it is great to see it. >> i feel like democrats are much more open to the idea of having independent commissions or taking redistricting out of politicians' hands, they've seen what happened to the republican party. these districts have been gerrymandered that the republican party on a national, state level is controlled by a far right ideology that made governance impossible. >> when y

i'm corinne brown. i am from florida. of course, i'm very familiar with the system in st. pete and you all processed most of the casework in florida, and it really has improved. we was having so much kickback, you know, we would process it and it wasn't going through so i think it's very important to have goals. how long did you work at this center in st. pete? >> four years. >> you worked there for four years. have you seen an improvement in the system in the four years? >> that's a difficult question to answer because -- >> well, what's the number of cases that you was processing? because, you know, for a long time we were having serious problems because you all process most of the cases in florida and we have a very high number of cases in florida. >> yes. i did some studies and part of those studies that i just mentioned, and essentially, we haven't corrected errors that have been occurring in the past three years, no matter what type of training we're doing, it's not effective. we are repeating the same errors over and over again. so i would tend to say in answer to y