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1 de abr. de 2024 · Gerrymandering dates back to the 18th century, and damages democracy. But independent commissions can improve the situation.
- Gerrymandering Is Deeply undemocratic.
- There Are Multiple Ways to gerrymander.
- Gerrymandering Is Getting worse.
- Federal Reform Can Help Counter Gerrymandering — So Congress Needs to Act.
Every 10 years, states redraw their legislative and congressional district lines following the census. Because communities change, redistricting is critical to our democracy: maps must be redrawn to ensure that districts are equally populated, comply with laws such as the Voting Rights Act, and are otherwise representative of a state’s population. ...
While legislative and congressional district shapes may look wildly different from state to state, most attempts to gerrymander can best be understood through the lens of two basic techniques: cracking and packing. Cracking splits groups of people with similar characteristics, such as voters of the same party affiliation, across multiple districts....
Gerrymandering is a political tactic nearly as old as the United States. In designing Virginia’s very first congressional map, Patrick Henry attempted to draw district boundaries that would block his rival, James Madison, from winning a seat. But gerrymandering has also changed dramatically since the founding: today, intricate computer algorithms a...
The Freedom to Vote Act, a landmark piece of federal democracy reform legislation that has already passed the House, represents a major step toward curbing political gamesmanship in map drawing. The bill would enhance transparency, strengthen protections for communities of color, and ban partisan gerrymandering in congressional redistricting. It wo...
30 de sept. de 2022 · Sept. 30, 2022. If you asked Americans to describe the ways that political power has become disconnected from public opinion, many would put the gerrymandering of congressional districts near the...
20 de abr. de 2021 · Gerrymandering in the south fell off in the early 20th century due to the success of suppressing Black voters through poll taxes, the threat of lynching and other insidious tactics.
- Becky Little
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5 de jul. de 2023 · Researchers found tactic, widely used in 2020, made little difference in partisan numbers but yielded safe seats, less-responsive representatives. Harvard researchers say gerrymandering is still a problem, but for perhaps less-obvious reasons.
23 de may. de 2024 · The U.S. Supreme Court has reversed a lower court decision that had struck down a South Carolina congressional district as a racial gerrymander. Patrick Semansky/AP. The U.S. Supreme Court on...
In representative electoral systems, gerrymandering (/ ˈ dʒ ɛ r i ˌ m æ n d ər ɪ ŋ /, originally / ˈ ɡ ɛr i ˌ m æ n d ər ɪ ŋ /) is the political manipulation of electoral district boundaries with the intent to create undue advantage for a party, group, or socioeconomic class within the constituency.
