Showing posts with label Gerrymandering. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gerrymandering. Show all posts
Sunday, July 7, 2019
Tuesday, November 6, 2018
Friday, October 5, 2018
State Ballot Initiatives Challenge Gerrymandering and Voter Suppression
https://truthout.org/articles/state-ballot-initiatives-challenge-gerrymandering-and-voter-suppression/
"Across the country, voters are considering more than two dozen ballot initiatives aimed at expanding ballot access and voting rights, as well rooting out political corruption, according to civil rights advocates and nonpartisan good government groups who held a briefing with reporters on Tuesday. Call it “draining the swamp” if you like, but these efforts are driven by activists and everyday citizens who pounded the pavement collecting signatures, not by loudmouth politicians in Washington, DC."
"Across the country, voters are considering more than two dozen ballot initiatives aimed at expanding ballot access and voting rights, as well rooting out political corruption, according to civil rights advocates and nonpartisan good government groups who held a briefing with reporters on Tuesday. Call it “draining the swamp” if you like, but these efforts are driven by activists and everyday citizens who pounded the pavement collecting signatures, not by loudmouth politicians in Washington, DC."
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Monday, September 30, 2013
Radical House GOP Made Safe By Gerrymandering
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Wednesday, May 8, 2013
Our Elections Really Are Rigged—by Gerrymandering and Districting Abuses | The Nation
Our Elections Really Are Rigged—by Gerrymandering and Districting Abuses | The Nation
"Partisan redistricting—not just classic gerrymandering but a variety of structural factors—assures that the vast majority of congressional districts in the vast majority of states produce predictable results. Even if the candidate of the dominant party is flawed, even if a challenger has financial advantages, FairVote executive director Rob Richie reminds us that “partisanship is the dominant factor in determining election outcomes"."
"Partisan redistricting—not just classic gerrymandering but a variety of structural factors—assures that the vast majority of congressional districts in the vast majority of states produce predictable results. Even if the candidate of the dominant party is flawed, even if a challenger has financial advantages, FairVote executive director Rob Richie reminds us that “partisanship is the dominant factor in determining election outcomes"."
Monday, February 4, 2013
Study: Republican Gerrymandering Cost Democrats 1.7 Million Votes In Just 7 States
Study: Republican Gerrymandering Cost Democrats 1.7 Million Votes In Just 7 States: Republicans so effectively gerrymandered congressional maps before the 2012 election that Democratic House candidates would need to win the national popular vote by over 7 points in order to win back the House. Last November, the American people preferred Democratic House candidates to Republican House candidates by almost 1.4 million votes, [...]/p
Wisconsin's "Shameful" Gerrymander of 2012
Wisconsin's "Shameful" Gerrymander of 2012
"The GOP's partisan redistricting process has come under renewed scrutiny in recent months, with gerrymandered maps helping Republicans hold Congress despite receiving fewer votes than Democrats, and state legislators discussing plans to rig the presidential election by awarding electoral votes according to those contorted boundaries. But out of all the states re-drawing Congressional boundaries along partisan lines after the 2010 elections, Wisconsin's gerrymandering may have been the most egregious."
"The GOP's partisan redistricting process has come under renewed scrutiny in recent months, with gerrymandered maps helping Republicans hold Congress despite receiving fewer votes than Democrats, and state legislators discussing plans to rig the presidential election by awarding electoral votes according to those contorted boundaries. But out of all the states re-drawing Congressional boundaries along partisan lines after the 2010 elections, Wisconsin's gerrymandering may have been the most egregious."
Wednesday, January 23, 2013
Four Ways The Virginia GOP’s Redistricting Power Grab Could Be Stopped By Legal Action
Four Ways The Virginia GOP’s Redistricting Power Grab Could Be Stopped By Legal Action: Yesterday, when Virginia state Sen. Henry Marsh (D) was away from the state capitol to attend President Obama’s inauguration, Virginia Republicans rushed through a gerrymandering bill that that could potentially transform the evenly divided Virginia senate into a 27-13 Republican majority. The Virginia senate is currently split 20-20 between Democrats and Republicans, and Lt. Gov. [...]/p
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