Because of Gerrymandering

Gerrymandering Explained | Brennan Center for Justice

Gerrymandering is deeply undemocratic. Every 10 years, states redraw their legislative and congressional district lines following the census.

Biggest problem with gerrymandering - Harvard Gazette

Harvard researchers found tactic, widely used in 2020, made little difference in partisan numbers but yielded safe seats, less-responsive ...

How Gerrymandering Tilts the 2024 Race for the House

The Brennan Center estimates that this gerrymandering will give Republicans an advantage of around 16 House seats in the 2024 race to control Congress compared ...

The Impacts of Gerrymandering - Public Wise

Democrats and Republicans have, at various times, each made the case that majority-minority districts could be threatened if partisan ...

The Ominous Cloud of Gerrymandering Hovering Over the 2024 ...

Mimicking the maps drawn in Massachusetts in 1812, gerrymandered maps of the post-Reconstruction South were oddly shaped congressional districts that ...

What is gerrymandering in US elections? What to know in 500 words

But it's legal, and both Republicans and Democrats do it. Gerrymandering, the process of redrawing voting districts to favour political parties, ...

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 ...

What Is Gerrymandering? | Campaign Legal Center

CLC's Paul Smith points to gerrymandered districts on a former North Carolina district map. To understand gerrymandering, it is first important ...

The House Map's Republican Bias Will Plummet In 2022

Congressional redistricting — the process of redrawing the nation's 435 congressional districts to reflect the results of the 2020 census ...

Gerrymandering - Wikipedia

In representative electoral systems, gerrymandering is the political manipulation of electoral district boundaries to advantage a party, group, ...

The Supreme Court, Gerrymandering, and the Rule of Law

Common Cause in 2019, that any federal constitutional challenge to a district map, based on the theory that it is a partisan gerrymander, ...

How Politicians are Limiting Voter Power by Gerrymandering

Corrupt politicians and their allies routinely undermine voter power by rigging voting districts in favor of their own parties.

How gerrymandering makes the US House intensely partisan - CNN

It's how politicians gerrymandered Austin under the new map last year. Instead of sprinkling Democratic voters throughout red districts, most of ...

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.

A primer on gerrymandering and political polarization

The practice of drawing legislative boundaries that favors one political party (the one in charge of drawing the lines) in elections.

Why should we care? - All About Redistricting - Loyola Law School

The location of district lines decide which voters vote for which representative. Changing the lines will change the relevant voters, and can change the ...

Amdt14.S1.8.6.3 Partisan Gerrymandering - Constitution Annotated

Partisan political gerrymandering, the drawing of legislative district lines to subordinate adherents of one political party and entrench a rival party in ...

How Gerrymandering Helped Republicans Win the House

Given the racially polarized voting in the state, the new map meant that Democrats would likely only win one congressional district. Voters sued ...

Common Cause v. Rucho

In 2016, Common Cause filed a lawsuit in response to congressional districts drawn by the North Carolina legislature, calling the map a partisan gerrymander ...

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.