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Two years ago the U.S. Supreme Court upheld South Carolina’s new congressional maps, rejecting claims that they were racially biased. Now, the state Supreme Court will weigh ...
The US Supreme Court last week denied a petition from Pennsylvania Republicans to invalidate the state legislative maps adopted by the 2021 Pennsylvania Legislative Redistricting Commission. This ...
Gerrymandering Pennsylvania: This is what the state's congressional districts looked like for much of the last decade after politicians approved a map in 2010.
Fair Districts PA, a non-partisan reform group, said the maps “reverse decades of partisan gerrymandering.” House Republicans saw things differently.
Gerrymandering and Redistricting in Pennsylvania, Explained The process of drawing up new congressional and state legislative districts, called redistricting, happens once a decade. It's supposed ...
The Princeton Gerrymandering Project looks at a variety of factors when assessing partisan fairness. One such factor is partisan bias, or the difference in seat share between the parties even if ...
The maps submitted by Fair Districts PA (Pennsylvania’s foremost voice lobbying for the end of gerrymandering) have done the best and fairest job of incorporating state law’s required criteria ...
Pennsylvania Abolishes Prison Gerrymandering 4 minute read Inmates in a block at the State Correctional Institution at Graterford in Graterford, Pa. on Sept. 7, 2017.
Pennsylvania to end prison gerrymandering, boosting the power of Philadelphia and Democrats' chances in 2022 By Charles R. Davis ...
The move "adds Pennsylvania to the growing list of states that recognize prison gerrymandering is a practice that distorts our democracy and creates unequal representation," she told Insider.
Pa. ends ‘prison gerrymandering’ with closely divided committee vote The commission redrawing Pa.’s House and Senate maps has voted to stop counting state prisoners as residents of the districts where ...