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We aggregate any news we find relating to the issue of gerrymandering, to stay up to date, check out some of the recent articles.The election won’t stop the partisan gerrymandering epidemic
State legislatures across the country will undergo a deeply partisan process of drawing district lines using the new census data starting next year. BY MARK SULLIVAN On election night (and throughout election week) most of us were very tuned in to the big national...
As Biden won the presidency, Republicans cemented their grip on power for the next decade
Democrats lost big in state elections which could cost them when new political maps are drawn by Alvin Chang and Sam Levine While the world focused on the election between Donald Trump and Joe Biden in November, some of the most consequential contests were in state...
Gerrymandering supports bad leaders
By Vivian Creekmore We assume that our Republican leaders are intelligent, educated and informed. Should we assume that when they share disinformation, they are lying? They know enough about medical science and research to understand how the COVID-19 crisis needs to...
The election is over. Wisconsin turns to redistricting.
An end-around the governor? A recall of state Supreme Court justices? Primary challenges? How far will the parties go to defend, or break, Wisconsin’s gerrymandered districts? By Peter Cameron The veto is intact. Now that the election is over, it’s time to move on to...
Editorial: The Wisconsin Legislature is a gerrymandered swamp run by self-serving Republicans
By John Hart The gerrymandering of Wisconsin legislative district lines has again produced the anti-democratic result that was intended by former Gov. Scott Walker and Republican legislative leaders when they drew maps that would thwart the will of the people. This...
The census is always an opportunity for gerrymandering in America
It may not be so easy this time By Adam Roberts FOCUS ONLY on elections and you risk missing how, once in a decade, decisions are made that greatly influence who gets to hold power in America. In the year after the 2020 census it is up to states—either through their...
Fred Kessler: How to draw fair maps in Wisconsin
By Fred Kessler As a Wisconsin legislator, I was one of the people who sued the state in 2011, arguing that maps drawn by my Republican colleagues amounted to an unconstitutional partisan gerrymander. It was the case that prompted the Supreme Court to decide last year...
Wisconsin’s Impending Redistricting May Decide The Future Of Politics For The Next Decade
By Joy Powers Every decade states around the country redraw their district maps. This process creates different legislative and congressional districts, proportionately divided by population. But since it last happened in 2011, the redistricting process has become...
2020 election again shows lopsided Republican legislative maps
By Mitchell Schmidt Continuing a decade-long trend in Wisconsin due in part to GOP-drawn legislative maps, Democratic candidates on Tuesday secured fewer legislative seats than what their statewide vote total would suggest. A Wisconsin State Journal analysis of...
Gerrymandered districts helped GOP stay in power in state legislature, new analysis shows
Current districts drawn in 2011 have kept Wisconsin GOP in control for last ten years, UW Political Science Professor says By Sally Reed This year’s state election results show Wisconsin’s districts are gerrymandered to favor republican legislators, according to an...