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Gerrymandering Explained | Brennan Center for Justice
Gerrymandering is deeply undemocratic. Every 10 years, states redraw their legislative and congressional district lines following the census.
Let the Gerrymandering (and the Legal Battles) Begin
The Census Bureau will release data on Thursday, kicking off a huge fight over political redistricting, with control of Congress potentially ...
In representative electoral systems, gerrymandering is the political manipulation of electoral district boundaries to advantage a party, group, ...
How Democrats learned to stop worrying and love the gerrymander
The main reason is gerrymandering — redrawing of district lines for partisan benefit. Republicans built on their existing gerrymanders to try to ...
How Can We Combat Gerrymandering? | Campaign Legal Center
Below we will focus on three solutions to gerrymandering: using web tools to identify gerrymandered maps, establishing independent redistricting commissions ( ...
What is Gerrymandering? | Quick Learner - YouTube
Take a closer look at gerrymandering, which occurs when districts are drawn in a way that unfairly favors one group of people with the ...
Gerrymandering | Definition, Litigation, & Facts | Britannica
Gerrymandering, in U.S. politics, the practice of drawing the boundaries of electoral districts in a way that gives one political party an ...
Redistricting 101 | American Civil Liberties Union
Every 10 years, congressional district maps are redrawn based on the new census data on the population. This process, known as redistricting, is taking place ...
Fighting Gerrymandering in the States | Indivisible
The process by which congressional district lines are drawn dramatically impacts the fairness of our political process. In 35 states, the state legislature ...
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.
The Supreme Court Just Made Gerrymandering Even Easier
The Supreme Court's supermajority of six highly conservative justices issued a ruling weakening voting rights laws in Alexander v. South Carolina NAACP.
Ending Gerrymandering Won't Fix What Ails America | FiveThirtyEight
Gerrymandering contributes to issues like the drop in competitive elections, extremism and gridlock, but it's far from their sole cause.
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 ...
Where are the lines drawn? - All About Redistricting
Various rules limit where district lines may or may not be drawn. Rules about equal population and minority voting rights have federal backing.
Lesson of the Day: A Gerrymandering Game - The New York Times
In this lesson, students use an interactive tool to try their hand at drawing congressional districts. The goal: to see if they can gerrymander their party to ...
Redistricting: An Academic and Legal Perspective
Redistricting, the process of drawing electoral district boundaries, takes place in the United States following the completion of each ...
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 ...
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.
South Carolina Republicans ask justices to let district ruled a racial ...
A group of Republican lawmakers from South Carolina came to the Supreme Court this week, asking the justices to block a ruling by a federal court.
Racial Vote Dilution and Racial Gerrymandering | Library of Congress
That is, under certain circumstances, the VRA may require the creation of one or more majority-minority districts in a congressional redistricting plan in ...