Because of Gerrymandering

Last May, the Center for American Progress published a report that found that unfairly drawn congressional districts shifted, on average, a ...

How Gerrymandering Began in the US | HISTORY

In March 1812, the Boston Gazette ran a political cartoon depicting “a new species of monster”: “The Gerry-mander.

There's a way to fix gerrymandering (and it's not through the courts)

In an about-face last week, with a newly elected Republican majority, the North Carolina Supreme Court cleared the way for the ...

Where We Have Been: The History of Gerrymandering in America

The redistricting fights of today are the latest fusillade in an ongoing partisan tug-of-war for partisan power stretching back more than two centuries.

What is partisan gerrymandering? It's allowed in some states - NPR

A North Carolina court's unusual ruling has highlighted the fact that some states allow voting districts to be drawn in ways that make ...

Republicans poised to rig the next election by gerrymandering ...

A supreme court justice described the last round of gerrymandering as 'dishonoring US democracy'. Another round is about to start – will ...

Proportional representation and gerrymandering - Protect Democracy

Proportional electoral systems largely eliminate both the built-in bias inherent to the single-seat model and the effects of partisan ...

PR Library: How Proportional Representation Would Finally Solve ...

In a very real way, then, the political manipulation of district lines devalues the vote and undermines the democratic process. Describing the redistricting ...

Widespread partisan gerrymandering mostly cancels nationally, but ...

Legislative redistricting plans determine how voters' preferences are translated into representatives' seats. Political parties may manipulate the ...

This is the best explanation of gerrymandering you will ever see

Gerrymandering -- drawing political boundaries to give your party a numeric advantage over an opposing party -- is a difficult process to explain.

Partisan Gerrymandering and Turnout

To overcome those challenges, we construct a new measure of predicted gerrymandering based on the partisan composition of voters in congressional districts.

Prison Gerrymandering: Districting Behind Bars - Common Cause

When the Wisconsin Supreme Court struck down the congressional and state district maps last December and ordered new, fairer ones to be ...

AP analysis shows how gerrymandering benefited GOP in 2016 - PBS

The 2016 presidential contest was awash with charges that the fix was in: Republican Donald Trump repeatedly claimed that the election was ...

What The Freedom To Vote Act Means for Partisan Gerrymandering

A partisan gerrymander occurs when a state draws its congressional districts in a way that disproportionately favors one political party. This ...

Q&A: What Is Redistricting and Why Is It Controversial? - UVA Today

After a hectic election year in 2020, the University of Virginia Center for Politics and the staff of Sabato's Crystal Ball, the center's ...

Issue 1 Would Legalize Gerrymandering -- Not Prevent It | Ohio Senate

She wants to seriously weaken your right to decide who represents you in the U.S. Congress and the Ohio Statehouse. The former Ohio Supreme ...

Ohio votes under 'extreme' gerrymandering that favors Republicans

Once a swing state, Ohio has turned solidly red. Extreme gerrymandering of legislative and congressional districts could keep it that way for a long time.

Did Redistricting Cost Democrats The House? | FiveThirtyEight

The 2022 election for the House of Representatives was so close that if any number of things had gone differently, Democrats might have kept ...

Ending Gerrymandering in Ohio: A Conversation with former Ohio ...

So, the Ohio Supreme Court, with Justice Maureen O'Connor as the crucial swing vote, invalidated the maps and sent them back to the Commission. But the ...

No, gerrymandering is not THE cause for non-competitive ...

Whitford, which will consider the partisan gerrymandering of legislative districts and, some hope, end it once and for all. Some politicos and ...