Category Archives: redistricting

“Lawmakers: Tackle Redistricting or Wait for Courts?”

April 13, 2013, 1:26 pmDepartment of Justice, redistricting, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Ross Ramsey for the Texas Tribune: Greg Abbott is selling a redistricting nostrum, telling Texas legislators they could cut their legal risks by adopting new political maps right away. It is a hard sell. Lawmakers are getting along so well… Continue reading

“Judge rules against complaint about Pennsylvania redistricting plan”

April 9, 2013, 7:52 amredistrictingRick Hasen

News from Pa: “A federal district court judge denied a Latino group’s request for injunctive relief and dismissed its complaint regarding the legislative reapportionment plan in Pennsylvania.”

“The G.O.P.’s Diversity Deserts”

March 30, 2013, 2:02 pmpolitical parties, political polarization, redistrictingRick Hasen

Charles Blow: “Too many House Republican districts are isolated in naturally homogeneous areas or gerrymandered ghettos, so elected officials there rarely hear — or see — the great and growing diversity of this country and the infusion of energy and… Continue reading

“Hiroshima Court Rules Election Invalid”

March 25, 2013, 1:05 pmredistrictingRick Hasen

WSJ: “In a landmark ruling Monday, a Hiroshima court ruled the results of the December lower-house election invalid in two districts due to the disproportionate weighting of votes in those districts.”

“California Nonpartisan Districting Ousts Life Incumbents”

March 20, 2013, 8:52 amcitizen commissions, redistrictingRick Hasen

Bloomberg reports.

“Republicans Win Congress as Democrats Get Most Votes”

March 19, 2013, 7:27 amredistrictingRick Hasen

Bloomberg reports.

“Republicans Foil What Majority Wants by Gerrymandering”

March 18, 2013, 8:09 amredistrictingRick Hasen

Extensive Bloomberg report, and extensive graphics, focusing on gerrymandering in Michigan.

“New court filing: Documents were deleted from GOP redistricting computers”

March 13, 2013, 10:21 pmchicanery, redistrictingRick Hasen

JS Online: Documents were deleted from state redistricting computers last year even after a lawyer for the Legislature told lawmakers’ aides to preserve all records on the computers, according to documents filed Wednesday in federal court. Nine hard drives… Continue reading

“Redistricting Reform Stalling in Ohio House”

March 10, 2013, 9:27 pmredistrictingRick Hasen

The Dayton Daily News reports.

“The Consequences of Consequentialist Criteria”

March 10, 2013, 12:38 pmredistrictingRick Hasen

Nick Stephanopoulos has posted this draft on SSRN (forthcoming UC Irvine Law Review). Here is the abstract: The two most significant approaches to redistricting to emerge in the last generation are both consequentialist. That is, they both urge authorities to… Continue reading

“Federal panel opens GOP computers in Wisconsin redistricting case”

February 26, 2013, 8:06 pmredistrictingRick Hasen

Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel: “A federal court gave groups suing the state broad access Monday to three computers used by the Legislature to develop Republican-friendly voting maps. The Legislature ‘must make these three computers available in their entirety immediately’ to the… Continue reading

“Redistricting didn’t win Republicans the House”

February 17, 2013, 2:51 pmredistrictingRick Hasen

John Sides and Eric McGhee: Neuroscientist and election forecaster Sam Wang recently added fuel to the fire, calling the 2012 outcome “The Great Gerrymander.” He identified 10 states, most of them controlled by Republicans, as notable and egregious deviations… Continue reading

“Texas redistricting appeal likely on hold at Supreme Court”

February 16, 2013, 8:56 pmredistricting, Supreme Court, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

The San Antonio Express-News reports.

“California and the Limits of Independent Redistricting Commissions with Winner-Take-All”

February 15, 2013, 4:13 pmalternative voting systems, citizen commissions, electoral college, redistrictingRick Hasen

FairVote: Three months after the 2012 election, independent redistricting continues to gain attention as a panacea for American congressional elections. Making the case from the quantitative flank is Sam Wang, professor of neuroscience at Princeton and founder of the… Continue reading