Colorado recently adopted a new framework for redistricting, creating an independent commission to draw district boundaries, prohibiting partisan bias and incumbency considerations, requiring that political boundaries (such as counties) be preserved as much as possible, and also requiring that mapmakers ...
Republican or Democrat-controlled legislation can influence where the lines are drawn and give their party an advantage. Partisan mapmakers can craft strong and difficult-to-flip districts by dividing their opposition party’s supporters across many districts or into a single district to dilute voting...
But even if the playing field were more level, it’s not clear that voters would trust the redistricting process more. As Bitzer told me, voters’ perceptions of a fair map often boils down to thei...
who havebeen in limboregarding where they are actually running due to the delay in map drawing. In his campaign launch, Texas Republican candidate Wesley Hunt wrote that he will announce the district he'll run in "as soon as Texas releases their newly redrawn Congressional district lines." ...
That election contest, between Jason Wong and Murali Srinivasan for the 3rd District seat on the Sunnyvale city council ended in a tie after two recounts. The city election code called for pulling lots to determine the winner. Carnahan put both candidate’s names into a bag, s...
Freshman Classes Provide Glimpse of Affirmative Action Ruling's Impact on Colleges Some selective colleges are reporting drops in the numbers of Black students in their new freshman classes, the first admitted since a Supreme Court ruling struck down affirmative action in higher educat...