Category Archives: redistricting

“Republican bill could allow Arizona Legislature to draw map of voters”

February 16, 2018, 7:26 amdirect democracy, redistrictingRick Hasen

Arizona Republic: Republican state lawmakers are pushing a November ballot proposition that would ask voters to overhaul the panel that draws Arizona’s political boundaries — a move that could affect which party holds power at the state Capitol. The proposition… Continue reading

“Republicans are poised to dominate redistricting again. Can Eric Holder stop them?”

February 14, 2018, 4:30 pmredistrictingRick Hasen

WaPo Wonkblog.

“The governor of Pennsylvania rejects Republicans’ new map”

February 14, 2018, 9:10 amredistricting, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

Steve Mazie for The Economist.

“Pa. congressional map stalemate edges closer to court-imposed deadline”

February 14, 2018, 7:44 amredistrictingRick Hasen

The latest on the Pa. redistricting battle.

“Experts launch PlanScore.org to allow citizens to evaluate redistricting schemes”

February 14, 2018, 7:25 amredistrictingRick Hasen

Release: PlanScore.org—a new website developed by redistricting experts and Silicon Valley coding experts— allows citizens to upload proposed state districting maps and instantaneously have them scored for partisan symmetry using three widely-accepted measures: the efficiency gap, partisan bias… Continue reading

“Keith Gaddie—Thinking About Gerrymandering”

February 14, 2018, 7:20 amredistrictingRick Hasen

Here’s a video of Keith giving a lecture at the University of Missouri Kinder Institute discussing whether partisanship is too unstable to measure for purposes of discerning partisan gerrrymandering.

Pennsylvania Governor Rejects Republican Legislative Leaders’ Proposed Districting Plan, Meaning Special Master Will Draw Congressional Districts

February 13, 2018, 9:00 amredistrictingRick Hasen

Gov. statement: Governor Tom Wolf today told the Pennsylvania Supreme Court that he will not accept the proposed map Republican legislative leaders submitted because it, too, is a partisan gerrymander that does not comply with the court’s order or Pennsylvania’s… Continue reading

NC: “Wake-Mecklenburg maps stand as GOP drew them, with hours left before candidates file”

February 12, 2018, 1:29 pmredistrictingRick Hasen

News and Observer: A panel of judges rejected a request from Democrats and voters who filed the first lawsuit this decade challenging North Carolina lawmakers’ redistricting plans to provide relief from election districts in Wake and Mecklenburg counties they contend… Continue reading

“California Local Redistricting Project Releases New Tool to Facilitate Local Redistricting Reform”

February 12, 2018, 1:28 pmredistrictingRick Hasen

Release: Today, the California Local Redistricting Project – a joint project of the University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law’s Capital Center for Law & Policy and California Common Cause – announced the release of a new tool to… Continue reading

“Trump’s Controversial Pick to Run the 2020 Census Withdraws”

February 12, 2018, 12:23 pmredistrictingRick Hasen

Ari Berman: The Trump administration’s controversial pick to run the 2020 census has withdrawn from consideration to be deputy director of the US Census Bureau, according to sources close to the bureau. In November, Politico reported that the administration planned… Continue reading

Jeff Wice Letter to NYT Editor on NYC Redistricting

February 11, 2018, 8:43 pmredistrictingRick Hasen

Here.

“Pa. Republicans have proposed a new congressional map. Democrats say it’s still gerrymandered.”

February 11, 2018, 9:35 amredistrictingRick Hasen

Philly.com: A proposed new map of Pennsylvania congressional districts may have sanded off some of the rougher edges of the current version, but it still amounts to a pro-Republican gerrymander, a chorus of Democrats complained Saturday as they urged Gov.… Continue reading

“Top Republicans in Pa. House, Senate submit congressional map to Gov. Wolf”

February 10, 2018, 10:26 amredistrictingRick Hasen

Philly Inquirer: Facing a deadline imposed by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, the legislature’s two top Republicans late Friday submitted to the governor a new statewide map of congressional districts to replace boundaries the justices ruled were unconstitutional. If approved, the… Continue reading

“Pennsylvania has to draw new congressional districts, but getting rid of gerrymandering will be harder than you think.”

February 9, 2018, 12:47 pmredistrictingRick Hasen

Bernie Grofman and Jonathan Cervas for the Monkey Cage: A map that meets all these criteria will probably reduce the Republican Party’s advantage in the state’s congressional races. Although the two parties poll more or less equally statewide, Republicans hold… Continue reading