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California Governor Gavin Newsom threatened retaliatory redistricting in response to Texas Governor Greg Abbott adding a redistricting effort as an agenda item to a July 21 special session. In an ...
Gerrymandering can disenfranchise voters, ... Artist Elkanah Tisdale's political cartoon in the Boston Gazette satirized Massachusetts' contorted voting map by depicting one of the districts as a ...
Gerrymandering is as old as the US republic itself. It’s the process of drawing congressional district lines in sometimes absurd ways to fortify one political party at the expense of another.
Gerrymandering, by definition, is the practice of deliberately designing voting districts to give a political party, racial group or both an advantage at the polls, an electoral connivance first ...
"Gerrymandering, by creating 'safe' electoral seats, is one of the most important drivers of polarization on Capitol Hill," Thomas Gift, associate professor of political science and founding ...
This is political gerrymandering. A lawsuit challenging the map argues that the North Carolina state constitution’s right to “fair” elections prohibits political gerrymandering.