You read that right. Instead of addressing the needs of Hoosiers, Republican leaders are pushing an unprecedented effort to redraw state borders and annex Illinois counties that voted to secede. This ...
It’s about consolidating political power. Indiana’s Statehouse Republicans have already gerrymandered our state beyond recognition — rigging maps to keep themselves in control year after year.
After disbanding more than four years ago, efforts are underway to revive Bartholomew County Indivisible. Formed in January 2017, BCI is part of the nationwide organization called Indivisible, a ...
Introduction: Gerrymandering has long been a contentious issue in electoral politics, shaping the way legislative districts ...
Republicans threw a stink bomb into the chambers of the Democratic-controlled Illinois Supreme Court. Citing the Illinois Constitution’s requirement that legislative maps be “compact,” the GOP ...
In 2012, no map had a pro-Democratic efficiency gap of at least two seats. This decade, Illinois’s Democratic gerrymandering boosted Democrats by 3.5 seats on average. California’s commission ...
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.
Voters have no right to fair elections, NC lawmakers say as they seek to dismiss gerrymandering suit In 2022, under the maps Orr helped draw, the state's 14 U.S. House seats split 7-7 with ...
A measure aimed at allowing Indiana to absorb 33 counties in Illinois that have voted in recent years to leave the state has cleared its first legislative hurdle, but the effort faces a major ...