What is gerrymandering and why should you care? Gerrymandering is when politicians and lobbyists draw the district maps to guarantee re-election. Ohio is one of the 10 most gerrymandered states in ...
Consider what's happening with gerrymandering across the country. It's been around since 1812, when Massachusetts Gov. Elbridge Gerry drew a Boston district resembling a slithering salamander to ...
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 ...
In my most recent column, I explained why I believe Republicans are not a force for positive change in our country and how Democrats need to take a more active role in trying to stop them. In doing so ...
Nowhere is the chicanery more obvious than in the dark art of gerrymandering congressional ... The government shouldn't be ...
Two years ago, I didn’t know anything about gerrymandering. I had never heard that term before, let alone understood the concept behind “packing” and “cracking” districts so that ...
“Today, the Court permanently prevents the City from racially gerrymandering any longer.” Joey Flechas is an associate editor and enterprise reporter for the Herald. He previously covered ...
The gazes of today’s executive officers in Ohio call to mind “the Ohio Look” described by James Thurber, the Columbus-born ...
More than a year after local civil rights groups and the ACLU of Florida sued the City of Miami for allegedly racially gerrymandering its map of city voting districts, a federal judge has sided ...
On Tuesday, the Supreme Court declined to stop a new state legislative map ... GOP-controlled state Legislature drew an illegal racial gerrymander in the 1st District near Charleston ...
Evan Milligan says Black voters will be inspired in November by by an election "where they feel their vote might actually ...