In 2023, the state’s Supreme Court invalidated the Republican-drawn state legislative districts as an unconstitutional partisan gerrymander. As a result, new district lines were put in place for ...

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The term “gerrymander” derives from the lampooning of Massachusetts Governor Elbridge Gerry for approving a redrawn electoral district in 1812 with an unnaturally contorted boundary that ...

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A panel of federal judges has ruled that a lawsuit alleging racial gerrymandering in a key Tampa Bay-area Florida Senate district may proceed, setting the stage for a high-profile trial over the ...

Eight townships voted in support of state lawmakers fixing the state’s pensions crisis, gerrymandering and unfunded mandates. Illinois voters in eight townships voted overwhelmingly April 1 to ...

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The plaintiffs argue the legislature violated Utahns’ rights when lawmakers “ignored” that commission and Prop 4’s anti-gerrymandering criteria to draw those lines. Utah House polls members about ...

Gerrymandering is not a new problem in the United States. Even the founding generation was not immune to its temptations: Patrick Henry famously attempted to have Virginia’s very first congressional ...