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Redistricting (Gerrymandering) articles on Democracy Chronicles
Redistricting, also known pejoratively as gerrymandering, refers to manipulation of the redrawing of districts to skew results towards a preferred party or candidate. With changes in population over time as cities grow and shrink, representative democracy requires adjusting border lines between electoral areas. For national elections, the U.S. Constitution outlines the need for a ten-year population count by census for national elections. The 50 states often have their own methods of redistricting. Also see our section on American democracy.
How Mass Incarceration Damages Democracy
Corrections industry influence, felony disenfranchisement and prison gerrymandering undermine democracy
Ohio Democratic Voters Sue State Over Gerrymandered Maps
If the Supreme Court rules that this round of Ohio redistricting is unconstitutional, it should remain consistent and rule in favor for Republican voters in Illinois and Maryland. Only a solution that works for both parties is likely to stick.
Supreme Court Refuses to Block Partisan Gerrymandering
The Supreme Court missed an opportunity today to lay down a firm marker identifying partisan gerrymandering
A Complete Report on the Vulnerable State of American Voting Laws
In ‘The State of Voting 2018’, the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU Law details threats to the ballot this fall
Free and Fair Elections Versus the Modern Republican Party
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.”
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 heard a bid by Texas to revive Republican-drawn electoral districts thrown out by a lower court for diluting the clout of black and Hispanic voters. Some of the conservative justices seemed willing during arguments in the case to […]
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