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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.
This year’s state election results show Wisconsin’s districts are gerrymandered to favor republican legislators, according to an Wisconsin State Journal analysis of the election. Last Tuesday’s ...
In states across America—both red and blue—partisan gerrymandering has stifled real debate as politicians scheme to draw up the safest possible districts for themselves. In Maryland ...
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 ...
It is turning to the courts. The problem, according to Democrats, is that the Republicans have unfairly gerrymandered the districts. Over 30 years ago the Supreme Court acknowledged that drawing ...
The same holds true for gerrymandered electoral districts, according to Binghamton University political science researchers. Think of a gerrymander as a form of illness, Associate Professor Daniel B.
They wanted to gerrymander the north side of a small 25,000 person town into a completely separate district. Gerrymandering is what happens when elected leaders want to choose their own voters ...