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The practice of gerrymandering the borders of new states continued past the Civil War and into the late 19th century. The Republican Party used its control of Congress to secure the admission of more states in territories friendly to their party. A notable example is the admission of Dakota Territory as two states instead of one.
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.
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.
The state currently has seven Democrats and seven Republicans in the US House but thanks to a new Republican majority on the Supreme Court, that may flip in 2024 to 11 Republicans and three Democrats.
The state remains a perennial battleground, closely split between Democrats and Republicans in elections. In the last presidential race, Republican Donald Trump won by just over 1 percentage point ...
Oct. 15—OHIO — As Ohioans head to the polls this election season, a topic of discussion is Issue 1, a proposed constitutional amendment to overhaul the state's redistricting process. Both ...
Thomas Brooks Hofeller (April 14, 1943 – August 16, 2018) [1] was a Republican political strategist primarily known for his involvement in gerrymandering electoral district maps favorable for Republicans. [2] [3] [4] David Daley of The New Yorker referred to Hofeller as "the master of the modern gerrymander."
But seven times in 2022, the Ohio Supreme Court decided that the maps drawn by the panel amount to gerrymandering, drawn to more heavily favor republicans. This November, Issue 1 seeks to change ...