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A gerrymandered congressional district, the 11th CD of CA, drawn to favor Republican Richard Pombo.While the Danville area is a traditional Republican stronghold, Morgan Hill is not, and it was added to obtain the proper population numbers for the 11th after Livermore was assigned to the 10th at the behest of the incumbent Democrat, since it contains the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory ...
At the state level, state courts may order or impose redistricting plans on jurisdictions where redistricting legislation prohibits gerrymandering. For example, in 2010 Florida adopted two state constitutional amendments that prohibit the Florida Legislature from drawing redistricting plans that favor or disfavor any political party or ...
In November 2008, California voters passed Proposition 11, authorizing a state redistricting commission. [1] The California State Auditor (CSA) adopted regulations on 20 October 2009. [22] The Applicant Review Panel was randomly selected on 16 November 2009.
The old gerrymandering had a very bad stench and is still practiced in many states including Texas, columnist George Skelton writes. Column: Gerrymandering still exists in California. But reforms ...
A federal judge has thrown out the city of Miami’s voting map after ruling that commissioners in 2022 approved unconstitutional, racially gerrymandered district boundaries that sorted city ...
In July 2015 the Florida Supreme Court overturned the boundaries of the state's congressional districts, ruling that "the maps were the product of an unconstitutional political gerrymandering". It expressed its distrust of lawmakers and "provided detailed instructions on how to repair the flawed map in time for the 2016 election." [7]
A political battle over Florida’s redrawn congressional map is bringing new attention to the issue of nationwide gerrymandering and what […] The post Redrawing of congressional maps like in ...
The commission received the official 2020 U.S. census data on which the maps must be based, by law, on September 21, 2021. Draft maps were released then on November 21, and final maps were submitted to the California Secretary of State on December 27, 2021. [16] The new districts are considered "enacted" as of December 27, 2021.