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As gerrymandering relies on the wasted-vote effect, the use of a different voting system with fewer wasted votes can help reduce gerrymandering. In particular, the use of multi-member districts alongside voting systems establishing proportional representation such as party-list proportional representation or single transferable voting can ...
State legislatures have used gerrymandering along racial or ethnic lines both to decrease and increase minority representation in state governments and congressional delegations. In the state of Ohio, a conversation between Republican officials was recorded that demonstrated that redistricting was being done to aid their political candidates.
How where people live affects map-drawing. There were changes in the bipartisan commission that led to fairer maps in Pennsylvania. Another factor was simple geography, specifically in the upper ...
As we’ve seen, gerrymandering doesn’t just warp political representation—it warps the very policies that affect the health and lives of millions. If you care about reproductive rights, now ...
Despite the gerrymandering, first-year Rep. Lindsey Prather of Candler said she will seek reelection to the new 115th that will cover the west and north of the county.
How does gerrymandering work? If congressional districts are drawn fairly (left) then races are competitive; red dots (representing Republicans) and blue dots (Democrats) are split evenly with 16 voters in each district, and neither Republicans nor Democrats have an advantage.
The presidential race has dominated national headlines, but Ohioans have gerrymandering on the minds. Nearly 900 people have responded to The Dispatch's nonscientific poll on Ohio Issue 1 ...
South Carolina State Conference of the NAACP is the first partisan gerrymandering case taken by the United States Supreme Court after its landmark decision in Rucho v Common Cause which stated that partisan gerrymandering claims present political questions beyond the reach of the federal courts, and the first racial gerrymandering case, after ...