Dummymander is the term that the political scientists Bernard Grofman and Thomas L. Brunell coined for what happens when a ...
A fierce nationwide redistricting battle has unfolded ahead of the midterm elections this year, sparked by the Texas state legislature’s adoption of an aggressively gerrymandered congressional map ...
The League of Women Voters is dedicated to empowering voters and defending democracy, and we are deeply concerned by the gerrymandering efforts currently undermining fair representation – a strategy ...
Congressional redistricting – the process of drawing electoral districts to account for population changes – was conceived by the Founding Fathers as a once-per-decade redrawing of district lines ...
As a lifelong Utahn, I especially care about issues that affect everyone. Proposition 4, also known as the Utah Independent Redistricting Commission and Standards Act, was signed into law after Utahns ...
Gerrymandering is a tactic used by political parties to redraw districts, making elections less competitive. A recent push by the White House for red states to redraw congressional maps could ...
Gerrymandering, the political practice of carving up awkward-looking legislative districts to benefit one party’s political power, has slithered into the public conversation once again. Some of us ...
Our current system for elections to the House of Representatives systematically enables gerrymandering and helps trap the Left inside the Democratic Party. We need proportional representation. Texas ...
Democrats here in St. Joseph County and nationally are complaining about Republican attempts at redistricting, going as far to call it “morally wrong” (Letters, Nov. 9). When Democrats are in charge, ...