As a swing voter, who has proudly voted for and supported Republicans in the past, I can’t fathom supporting a party that continues to remove itself from ‘We the People’, to be only for “a few of the people, the whitest and wealthiest.”
Redistricting articles on Democracy Chronicles
Redistricting or Gerrymandering is partisan domination of state legislatures due to use of manipulated districts that are skewed towards one party. Also see our section on American democracy.
US Supreme Court Divided Over Texas Electoral District Fight
From Voice of America: The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday appeared divided along ideological lines as it
VIDEO: On Independent Redistricting and the Fair Representation Act
Latest discussion on a possible solution to the constant controversies surrounding the redistricting process
Large Majority of Public Support Congressional Election Reforms
Majorities of voters support independent redistricting commissions, ranked choice voting and multi-member districts
VIDEO: How the California redistricting process works
Leaders of California redistricting commission were in Pennsylvania to explain their system to local administrators
All eyes on landmark Supreme Court gerrymandering case
Court hears arguments on redrawing electoral districts’ boundaries to boost a political party’s chances in an election
Supreme Court weighs partisanship in Maryland redistricting
Supreme Court to review a Democratic scheme to take away one of Maryland’s two Republican House seats in Congress
Why Democrats Need 11-Point Margin to Take House in 2018
Democrats would need a near-record 11-point national margin or a series of extraordinary breaks to win
Mathematicians invent new tool to judge gerrymandering
A mathematical approach to judge gerrymandering and when political districts go beyond fairness and into manipulation
Behind the Move to Add a Census Citizenship Question
Department of Justice requested that the Census Bureau add a citizenship question to the 2020 survey