Two decades ago, the mathematician Moon Duchin spent her summers teaching geometry at Mathcamp, a program for mathematically talented teens. Campers contemplated notions such as how to prove whether a ...
Texas conducted an unusual mid-decade redrawing of Congressional districts for the state. California responded in kind with a ballot measure to temporarily suspend their independent-commission-drawn ...
A North Carolina lawmaker studies a district map during a joint select committee meeting on redistricting, July 26, 2017, in Raleigh, N.C. North Carolina legislators are once again mapping the state’s ...
Californians have started receiving their ballots this week for the Nov. 4 special election. Voters will decide on Proposition 50, a measure that would redraw the state’s congressional maps to help ...
In an era of brazen, bad-faith redistricting efforts, the prospects of winning a fair election as a newly gerrymandered candidate are slim, especially for Democrats. With the recent Trump-backed map ...
The United States is in the middle of another round of the redistricting wars. This latest battle began in late August. The Texas legislature approved maps that will likely result in five additional ...
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OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — As states consider redrawing their congressional district lines to favor one political party, some politicians warn that attempts to gerrymander can devolve into “dummymandering,” ...
Imagine playing a board game with friends. The rules are clear, the playing field is even, and everyone has a fair shot at winning. Now imagine one player quietly shifts the rules mid-game — moving ...
Gerrymandering, defined in the context of representative electoral systems, is the political manipulation of electoral district boundaries to advantage a political party, group or socioeconomic class ...
SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — California Governor Gavin Newsom is pushing Proposition 50, a measure that would allow the state to gerrymander districts as a counteraction to recent changes in Texas.