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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 ( ...

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 ...

Gerrymandering and how to fix it - Brookings Institution

The Supreme Court announced that it will hear a second case this term to determine whether partisan gerrymandering is unconstitutional.

There's only one way to fix gerrymandering - Protect Democracy

The North Carolina Supreme Court cleared the way for the Republican-controlled state legislature to further gerrymander its state and congressional districts.

Here's a different way to fix gerrymandering - The Washington Post

Even independent redistricting commissions are limited by the fact that Democrats cluster in cities while Republicans are widely dispersed.

A Simple Fix for Gerrymandering? | CHANCE

Arnold Barnett, Pengchen Han, and Gege Zhang With the 2020 census results now in hand, election districts throughout the USA will have to be redrawn. There ...

Gerrymandering Isn't New—But Now We Have a Solution - Time

19, Wisconsin governor Tony Evers signed new state legislative maps into law, ending a decade-long political and judicial dogfight that ...

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 ...

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 ...

Proportional Representation Can Reduce the Impact of ...

For starters, almost all American state and congressional elections use single-member districts, meaning only one person represents a given ...

There's only 1 real solution to partisan gerrymandering | The Week

In states from California to New Jersey to Alaska (amusingly in the latter case, as Alaska only has one congressional district), it's become ...

How to Fix Gerrymandering - Center for American Progress

Implementing voter-determined districts is a sensible way to end partisan gerrymandering and ensure fair representation.

To End Gerrymandering, Change How We Elect Congress | TIME

The latest gerrymandering shows how dysfunctional the U.S. political system has become. There's a better way to vote that counts every ...

Is there any realistic way we can get rid of gerrymandering in America?

I read a stat that over 70% of all Americans are against gerrymandering, with fairly equal representation of that from both parties.

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 ...

There May Be No Realistic Way to Fix Gerrymandering

Ohio's new district maps were supposed to be more democratic. Instead, they point to the possibility that democracy is broken.

Our democracy is menaced by two dragons. Here's how to slay them.

It turns out that growing the House is the way to address both the increasing illegitimacy of the electoral college and the corrosion to our system.

The Best Way to Fix Gerrymandering Is to Make It Useless

Increasing the size of congressional districts and number of members elected make the electoral institution less effective.

Mathematicians are deploying algorithms to stop gerrymandering

With the 2020 US Census data release, states start the process of redrawing district maps. New computational tools will help hold ...

Voters can fight gerrymandering with help from mathematical tools

Voters can now easily evaluate whether their districts are being drawn to favor one party or freeze out entire communities, thanks to new ...