gerrymandering

Weld County has a message for the state of Colorado: stay out of our business. At least when it comes to establishing new boundaries for the districts the county’s five commissioners are elected to represent. Weld County completed the task…

The North Carolina Supreme Court handed down decisions Friday restoring the state’s voter ID requirement and overturning its previous ruling against legislative district maps that critics said unfairly favored Republicans.The State Supreme…

Over the past decade, a consistent refrain in discussions of politics has been that partisan gerrymandering – the drawing of congressional district lines to disproportionately advantage one party over the other – is unfair and distorts…

Remember when we learned about democracy in school: "One person, one vote," meaning that everyone's vote is as important as everyone else's? Once every ten years, state legislatures redraw their voting district maps to reflect any…

<!-- --> Pundit Brit Hume jokingly said Republican victories in Florida may have something to do with “gerrymandering” in reaction to MSNBC seriously declaring…

As the midterms approach, the Republican Party is facing a tougher than expected fight from the Democrats for control of the House of Representatives despite having had a rare opportunity to redraw the political map in their favor."People…

washington —  When midterm elections get under way next month, voters in several Republican-controlled states will be casting their ballots in congressional districts with borders that courts have rejected. In Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana…

On Tuesday, in oral arguments in the Supreme Court case of John Merrill, Alabama Secretary of State, et al. v. Evan Milligan, et al., Justice Elena Kagan asked Edmund LaCour, Jr., the solicitor general of Alabama, a question that offered a…