Gerrymandering

Gerrymandering is surging in states where legislatures are in charge of redrawing voting districts used to elect members of Congress

New commissions approved by voters to reduce partisan gamesmanship in redistricting are instead splitting along partisan lines in some states.

New York is one of at least five states that added nonpartisan redistricting commissions in hopes of redrawing maps free of political influence and contorted gerrymanders, but the competing maps released Wednesday drew immediate criticism from some quarters as being entirely partisan

Democrats are wondering if they erred in pushing too hard in some states for a nonpartisan redistricting process.

Redistricting is taking place without previous federal protections, and voters of color could lose out even as Census data shows the U.S. is now more diverse.

While Democrats and Republicans battle over voting rights, election integrity, and rules regarding mail ballots, relatively few in Washington have turned up the heat on gerrymandering, a uniquely American problem that winds up disenfranchising tens of millions of American voters. Armed with the new Census data released last week, political groups across the country have started the once-in-a-decade process of...

Gerrymandering is a uniquely American problem that ends up disenfranchising tens of millions of American voters. NBCLX Political Editor Noah Pransky used his favorite candy to explain what it is and how it may be solved.

While America is more diverse than ever, it’s also becoming more siloed: more educated people are increasingly concentrating themselves in cities. NBCLX Political Editor Noah Pransky breaks down the early data from the 2020 Census and explains how it will impact your Congressional district and the political world.

An Associated Press analysis shows that Republicans have benefited from the biggest political advantage in decades because of potential gerrymandering in U.S. House districts and state legislative boundaries

You’ve probably heard of gerrymandering, the term for when politicians redraw political districts to either consolidate power — or break up their opponents’ supporters. But you probably don’t know that it dates back to the earliest years of the country and was named after a district that looked like a salamander. And you also may not know how it directly...

Texas Republicans are rolling out a slew of restrictive election bills, taking particular aim at early voting after Democrats enthusiastically embraced the practice last year

One of the goals of the voting rights reform bill, recently passed by House Democrats and facing a uphill battle in the Senate, is to end gerrymandering. It is the practice of state legislatures manipulating the boundaries of district maps in ways that favor one party or racial group.  An increasing number of states have employed independent commissions to...

A nationwide push to relax drug laws took a significant step forward Tuesday

The gerrymandering wars are heading South, NBC News reports. A number of Southern states, including Texas, Florida, Georgia and North Carolina, are prime targets for partisan gerrymandering as the congressional redistricting process gets underway after next year’s statehouse elections, experts said. “Many of the states that had the really aggressive gerrymanders the last time — Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin —…

A comprehensive gun control bill in Connecticut is expected to be approved by the House. It would impose some of the nation’s toughest gun control laws. Checkey Beckford has more.