Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. House Speaker Don Scott, D-Portsmouth, and Senate President Pro Tempore Louise Lucas, D-Portsmouth, outline their redistricting ...
The gerrymandering rush was prompted by a US Supreme Court ruling that will make it harder for voters to challenge new maps ...
From Fixed Districts to "Moving Information Structures"So far, we have looked at geographic gerrymanderinginformation ...
On April 29, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down Louisiana's voting map on the basis that the state had illegally used race as a consideration when it created a new majority-Black district. Observers ...
Virginia Democrats, in a rank partisan power-grab, just voted to replace the current fair and bipartisan congressional map with a naked gerrymander that will give Democrats 10 of the state’s 11 seats, ...
One important factor is the actual shape of the voting districts. By cleverly choosing the boundaries of a congressional district, a party can enable its candidate to win even if the vote count does ...
Ahead of the 2026 midterm elections, the parties are playing hardball. Texas Republicans have convened a special session of their legislature to redraw the state’s map of congressional districts, with ...
The mid-decade congressional gerrymandering that Donald Trump kicked off by instructing Texas Republicans to grab five additional districts before the 2026 midterms was startling to anyone with an ...
So how can a ban on partisan gerrymandering be a solution to the demise of the VRA? Because, in the United States, minority population patterns—often in clusters both in urban and rural areas—are such ...
(AP) — The gerrymandering of House districts is becoming more rampant across the U.S. The word “gerrymander” was coined in America more than 200 years ago as an unflattering way to describe the ...
Partisan gerrymandering is the practice of drawing legislative districts to favor one political party. Many democracies, including the United Kingdom and Canada, use independent commissions to draw ...