There's a way to fix gerrymandering

Here Are Three Other Ways to Redistrict - Democracy Docket

Americans have drawn congressional districts in a very similar fashion since the 18th century. But the way we currently draw maps isn't the ...

Combat Rigged Elections: Fix Gerrymandering

Orlando – With the 2020 census likely to trigger a new wave of partisan gerrymandering of congressional districts, the bold and sweeping gerrymander reform ...

How Congress Could Fix Redistricting -- Without The Supreme Court

While all eyes in the political world are on the Supreme Court as it considers a Wisconsin case that tests the role of partisan politics in ...

Gerrymandering and computational redistricting - PMC

Partisan gerrymandering poses a threat to democracy. Moreover, the complexity of the districting task may exceed human capacities. One potential solution is ...

Gerrymander to Save American Democracy - by Brian Klaas

a specific type of gerrymandering—to boost competition—is the best hope for saving a broken system that's lurching toward authoritarian rule ...

How Partisan Gerrymandering Limits Voting Rights

In an effort to hold on to power, state legislators who won their elections due to gerrymandering are making it harder for Americans to vote.

How to fix gerrymandering by making state legislatures bigger.

This week, the Supreme Court agreed to take up the case of Gill v. Whitford, whose plaintiffs claim the electoral boundaries drawn up by the ...

How to fix gerrymandering and stop future shutdowns - The Week

Thanks to partisan redistricting, they come from safe red districts where their constituencies either endorse the shutdown or, even if they don't, would never ...

How to end gerrymandering - but why it won't do as much as you hope

How some districts in Texas were redrawn to reduce Democratic house seats It is possible to end Gerrymandering, the nasty process where ...

How Mathematicians Are Working to End Gerrymandering

His goal: to convince the judges that North Carolina's 2016 congressional map was a partisan gerrymander and that mathematics offered the tools to quantify such ...

How Gerrymandering Got So Nasty: Means, Motive, and Opportunity

The means: Partisan voting has become more predictable. Technological advancements have made districting more precise. The motive(s):. Nationalized elections ...

A Self-Enforcing Protocol to Solve Gerrymandering

Prior solutions required either a bipartisan commission to create fair voting districts (arbitrated), or require a judge to approve district ...

There's only one way to fix gerrymandering (and it's not through the ...

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

Researchers devise an algorithm to combat gerrymandering

A team of computer scientists led by Brown's Philip Klein has come up with a new algorithmic approach to drawing congressional districts ...

Status of Partisan Gerrymandering Litigation in State Courts

Utah's high court sent a closely watched challenge to the state's congressional maps back to the lower court.

Gerrymandering - The Institute for Mathematics and Democracy

Political gerrymandering, however, is allowed. In most states the party in power redraws district lines to their own political advantage – the party chooses the ...

Politicians, Voters, and Gerrymandering - Cato Institute

Redistricting reform has been on the march in recent years, with about a dozen states embarking on systematic reforms of how district lines are drawn, ...

Proposed Ohio constitutional amendment seeks to end ...

The new proposal creates the 15-member Ohio Citizens Redistricting Commission (OCRC) made up of Republican, Democratic and independent citizens.

How Math Has Changed the Shape of Gerrymandering

Colorado has created a non-partisan redistricting commission to draw maps. Yet the endless possibilities for district borders has challenged ...

Robert Reich (HOW TO END PARTISAN GERRYMANDERING One ...

The state court implemented its own map for the 2018 election, creating districts that are less biased in favor of Republicans. Second, states can delegate the ...