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Johnson that racial gerrymandering is a violation of constitutional rights and upheld decisions against redistricting that is purposely devised based on race. Racial gerrymandering effectively maximizes or minimizes the impact of racial minority votes in certain districts with the goal of diluting the minority vote.
Gerrymandering also has significant effects on the representation voters receive in gerrymandered districts. Because gerrymandering can be designed to increase the number of wasted votes among the electorate, the relative representation of particular groups can be drastically altered from their actual share of the voting population.
Ohioans don't like gerrymandering, which is why both sides of the Issue 1 debate say they have a solution for it.
The efficiency gap was first devised by University of Chicago law professor Nicholas Stephanopoulos and political scientist Eric McGhee in 2014. [3] The metric has notably been used to quantitatively assess the effect of gerrymandering, the assigning of voters to electoral districts in such a way as to increase the number of districts won by one political party at the expense of another.
Here's a quick wrap-up of how recently passed redistricting in North Carolina will affect Asheville and other parts of Western N.C.
‘Gerrymandering is one of the biggest risks we face for democracy’ This was the result of gerrymandering – the practice of drawing districts in a way that maximizes the seats of one party or ...
New York's highest court last week gave Democrats a chance to redraw the state's congressional districts, a major victory as the party tries to win control of the U.S. House next year. Now the ...
Original - Original cartoon of "The Gerry-Mander", this is the political cartoon that led to the coining of the term Gerrymander.The district depicted in the cartoon was created by Massachusetts legislature to favor the incumbent Democratic-Republican party candidates of Governor Elbridge Gerry over the Federalists in 1812.