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In the Fulcrum report of five years ago, we asked several redistricting experts to identify the worst examples of gerrymandering. Today, gerrymandered districts are still a serious problem.
Florida Senate redistricting plan is being challenged on the basis that a Tampa Bay-area district was racially gerrymandered.
For example, every county in Oklahoma voted ... congressional district maps become even more important. A handful of gerrymandered districts can easily shift control of the House to a different ...
Have you ever felt like the government does not represent your beliefs or that your vote doesn’t actually matter? Even outside of the debate around more hotly contested election ...
A study by Stanford professor Simon Jackman stated that Wisconsin’s current gerrymandered districts ... Legislative voting districts, both state and federal, were heavily altered. Take for example ...
In a decision that shouldn't surprise anyone, the Democratic-majority Illinois Supreme Court has rejected Republicans' constitutional challenge to the state's gerrymandered House and Senate districts.
That leaves intact legislative maps that badly undermine democracy in Illinois. Any reasonable, non-partisan person looking at the facts would arrive at that conclusion. State House districts are so ...
They added that South Carolina could be exposed "to potential racial gerrymandering liability whenever they decline to make majority-white, modestly majority Republican districts majority ...
Acker, in turn, argued that Garcia would be immediately harmed if the original district were back in play and his case was delayed. “He lives in a racially gerrymandered district, and he would be ...
Opinion articles provide independent perspectives on key community issues, separate from our newsroom reporting. In his most recent lawsuit on election gerrymandering, former North Carolina ...