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The odd shapes—distended projections and non-natural feature-based wiggly boundaries—of California Senate districts in southern California (2008) have led to complaints of gerrymandering. Illinois's 4th congressional district has the moniker "the earmuffs" and amounts to packing of two mainly Hispanic areas. [115]
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 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 ...
In response to this obvious gerrymandering, a 2010 referendum in California gave the power to redraw congressional district lines to the California Citizens Redistricting Commission, which had been created to draw California State Senate and Assembly districts by a 2008 referendum. In stark contrast to the redistricting efforts that followed ...
This was substantiated, for example, in California, where the average percentage of competitive districts went from 5.6% in the decade preceding the 2010 introduction of an independent commission ...
Nov. 27—The state Supreme Court affirmed a District Court judge's decision that said while Democratic lawmakers tried to dilute Republican voting power in one of the state's three congressional ...
Gerrymandering in the redistricting process has been a problem since the early days of the republic. [8] In recent years, critics have argued that redistricting has been used to neutralize minority voting power. [9] Supporters say it enhances electoral competitiveness. [10]
The longtime Oakland lawmaker was defeated in the primary by Adam Schiff and Steve Garvey, disappointing a close-knit California sisterhood. But all is not lost. Column: California isn't sending a ...