Gerrymandering is almost as old as the US republic itself. It’s the process of drawing electoral district lines in sometimes absurd ways to fortify one political party at the expense of another. Good-government groups say that gerrymandering lets politicians choose their constituents,

RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) -- State lawmakers discussed new political maps for next year's congressional elections that could help Republicans pick up more seats in Washington next year. Right now, North Carolina's congressional delegation is split between seven ...

No one knows yet what Georgia’s redrawn political map will look like come December, but the redistricting court case provides some clues. A federal judge last week ordered state legislators to create a fifth majority-Black congressional district, located ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The election contests of 2022 may have been held and decided, but Ohio's political maps remain far from settled. It was supposed to be a once-per-decade process for redrawing the state's U.S. House and Statehouse districts, to ...

Pennsylvania Republicans are moving to change how the state’s political maps are drawn after a redistricting cycle that could potentially diminish their party’s power in Harrisburg. Among the proposals is one that would give the legislature more ...

Proposed political maps released by the leaders of New York’s Democrat-dominated legislature would give the party an advantage in 22 of of the state’s 26 congressional districts and mean re-election trouble for several Republican members of the U.S. House. The new maps, released late Sunday, could lead to Democrats picking up as many as three House seats and Republicans losing…

Years ago, voters created a commission to make political maps fairer. Now the State Supreme Court is blocking maps drawn by the Republican-led commission, saying nothing has changed. By Michael Wines A bipartisan majority of Ohio Supreme Court justices has ...

ST. PAUL — Minnesota's political landscape has shifted in the wake of new legislative and Congressional district maps released Tuesday, Feb. 15, by a panel of five judges. Among the biggest changes are the visible growth of Minnesota's Congressional ...

New political maps have upended the California Legislature this year by prodding more than two-dozen state lawmakers into early retirement or career changes, while others are forced into unfamiliar new districts ahead of the November election. Democrats ...

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