Introduction: Gerrymandering has long been a contentious issue in electoral politics, shaping the way legislative districts ...
Daniel Magleby and Michael D. McDonald have written this draft for ELJ. Here is the abstract: The Roberts Court has turned over efforts to limit gerrymanders to politics and willing state courts.
In a Facebook video on 12 March, SDP Secretary-General Chee Soon Juan criticised the EBRC’s decision to merge Bukit Batok SMC into Jurong GRC, calling it a calculated move to weaken the opposition.
Illinoisans deserve a fair electoral system. We say it’s time for the Illinois Supreme Court to weigh in on Illinois’ ...
How do we know the House’s pro-Republican skew has disappeared? One common measure of bias, the efficiency gap, compares the parties’ respective shares of “wasted” votes: those cast either for losing ...
Opposition parties in Singapore called into question revisions to the electoral boundaries, accusing officials of ...
Citizens in half the states have the power to place initiatives or referendums on the ballot. That process is under threat, ...
Orr’s lawsuit, now before the state Court of Appeals, argues that a legislative redistricting process that overfills what ...
Meanwhile, Republicans in Texas, North Carolina, Ohio, Iowa and other jurisdictions controlled by Republicans go their merry way, gerrymandering to minimize Democratic representation and maximize ...
Eric McGhee, Chris Warshaw, and I wrote this column in today’s Washington Post on the evaporation of the U.S. House’s longstanding pro-Republican bias in the 2020s. For more than two decades, the ...
The gerrymandering also explains why Republicans are often excluded from key conversations. We’ve heard from multiple GOP state lawmakers that they have been iced out of budget talks.