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 ...
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." ...
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 the...
release that federal regulators should be able to impose on companies that fail to protect user information ‘a meaningful penalty on the first offense.’ And ‘some aspects of any privacy framework will necessitate...
This amendment calls for competitive congressional districts in Colorado. The problem is that creating competitive districts conflicts with other districting principles. The research question is what impact will drawing competitive congressional districts have on measures of compactness and preserving political...