Draft from Benjamin Plener Cover forthcoming in the Iowa Law Review now up on SSRN: The popular narrative surrounding gerrymandering frames it as a performative phenomenon—achieved through the intentional manipulations of malevolent partisan actors. Efforts to curb partisan gerrymandering—which… Continue reading

Colorado Newsline: For the first time in the state’s history, Colorado will change how it counts incarcerated people when drawing up new legislative maps, a redistricting panel confirmed in a vote on Friday.Historically, prison inmates have been counted by… Continue reading

Wisconsin Public Radio: Democrats filed the first Wisconsin lawsuit related to the 2021 redistricting process on Friday, arguing a federal court should step in to draw the state’s next set of political maps because state lawmakers and Gov. Tony… Continue reading

The following is a guest post from my UCI colleague Bernie Grofman: There are many issues of tradeoffs when considering criteria for redistricting.  For example, Nick Stephanopoulos in an August 11, 2021 posting to this blog asserted: “Don’t Conflate… Continue reading

I’m circling back to a post that Rick Pildes did on the role of competitiveness in the drawing of new congressional maps for Colorado. Here’s one more point along the same lines, based on the numerical analysis that Election Law… Continue reading

FiveThirtyEight has launched a new site dedicated to examining congressional redistricting.

Associated Press: Census Bureau statisticians and outside experts are trying to unravel a mystery: Why were so many questions about households in the 2020 census left unanswered?Residents did not respond to a multitude of questions about sex, race, Hispanic… Continue reading

This Washington Post column builds on a numerical comparison of 2020 House and Senate elections that the Election Law at Ohio State team has developed. In addition to the example of Georgia discussed in the column, it’s worth considering the… Continue reading

Justin Levitt’s tireless work at “All About Redistricting” is being carried on by Doug Spencer while Justin is in the government. It is an extraordinary and valuable resource. From the “About this site”: All About Redistricting is a… Continue reading

Michael Li op-ed in the Washington Post. As he notes, “On Aug. 16, the Census Bureau releases map data to states. After that, states are expected to rush to complete maps. Eighteen states, including Texas, Ohio and North Carolina,… Continue reading

Washington Post: The battle over the once-a-decade realignment of legislative and congressional districts is underway across the country even before new maps have been drawn, with lawsuits filed in nearly a dozen states, signaling how intense the fight for… Continue reading

So argue Dave Daley and Mike Parsons: “Whatever else Democrats decide to do with election reform before the recess, they should put partisan gerrymandering to a vote ASAP.” I agree wholeheartedly that Congress needs to act now to ban… Continue reading