Redistricting in each state: How it works, what it looks like Originally, it looked like Democrats might benefit from redistricting after the 2020 census -- with lawmakers redrawing maps in large ...

A s readers of this journal know so well, few eras have been as pivotal for American democracy as the present. After years of ...

Baltimore County Councilman Pat Young is trying to change a recently passed law that will put a referendum on the fall ballot ...

The three Republicans on the Baltimore County Council are pushing back against a Democratic member’s plan to repeal a proposed map of new council districts that the Republicans say was integral to ...

The Supreme Court examined two cases of partisan gerrymandering in North Carolina and Maryland, where voters and other plaintiffs sued the states for district maps they claimed were unconstitutional.

Ten states will vote on ballot initiatives on abortion this November: Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Maryland, Missouri, Montana ...

In states across America—both red and blue—partisan gerrymandering has stifled real debate as politicians scheme to draw up the safest possible districts for themselves. In Maryland ...

Ohio election officials have approved ballot language that will describe this fall’s Issue 1 as requiring gerrymandering when the proposal is intended to do the opposite ...

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The panel ordered the state to re-draw the 2016 map designed ... Wisconsin and another from Maryland. Former US Attorney General Eric Holder, who has railed against gerrymandering, called on ...

The court was reviewing contested language on Issue 1, a ballot initiative led by Citizens Not Politicians to place the responsibility of drawing Ohio’s electoral maps in the hands of a new ...

Remember, the Legislature’s map actually passed muster by the Princeton Gerrymandering Project’s algorithm at first. The map is, to its credit, very compact. It avoids racial inequity ...