Redistricting in each state: How it works, what it looks like Originally ... or bias to inherently favor a voting group or party. Gerrymandering is when redistricting goes wrong -- when the ...

Bickering and political favoritism also complicated the work of bipartisan commissions in Montana, New Jersey, and New York. Commissions also only solve the problem of gerrymandering if they have ...

Here's our guide to how gerrymandering works. Video by Paul Organe Day six of Donald Trump's hush-money trial in New York heard damaging testimony from a tabloid publisher. Dozens of student ...

Here's how it works. Let's say you have a large block ... It should readopt that standard now. Under it, gerrymandering might continue, but the intentional destruction of our democracy might ...

If in the past legislative gerrymandering — or redrawing legislative districts in artificial ways — was used to entrench corporate and partisan power, we now see another branch of government ...

More than a dozen former members of Congress started a discussion aimed at reviving the ailing institution. The outlook was ...

The US Census counts incarcerated people as residents of prisons, not their home towns — with undemocratic results.

The independent commissions’ work could provide evidence for advocates ... federal judges do not have the power to stop partisan gerrymandering, with politicians drawing districts to preserve ...

unless moderates in both parties work together “to help them get across the finish ... Most important, thanks in no small ...

That’s the case now for both pieces. In the gerrymander article, I cited, among others. the work of University of Michigan political scientist Jowei Chen with computer-simulated district-drawing ...

This was the result of gerrymandering – the practice of drawing districts in a way that maximizes the seats of one party or another. The practice was named after Elbridge Gerry, a vice president ...

Bickering and political favoritism also complicated the work of bipartisan commissions in Montana, New Jersey, and New York.