“Guest Column: Arizona’s nonpartisan redistricting creates fairer election outcomes”
Elliott Weiss has written this oped for the Arizona Daily Star.
Category Archives: redistricting
“California’s Post-Partisan Experiment”
Bloomberg View: “Uprooting intense partisanship in Washington would be easier if fewer legislators represented safe, ideologically homogenous districts. Or so reformers have long maintained. Now, with the final results in from legislative races in California, that thesis will get… Continue reading
“Not Gerrymandering, but Districting: More Evidence on How Democrats Won the Popular Vote but Lost the Congress”
More, at the Monkey Cage.
“Partisan bias in U.S. House elections”
Rob Richie has written this WaPo oped.
Federal Court in San Antonio Ponders Staying Texas Redistricting Case Until SCOTUS Decides Shelby County
See this order.
“Redistricting does not explain why House Democrats got a majority of the vote and a minority of the seats”
This item appears at The Monkey Cage.
“GOP’s Gerrymandered Advantages”
“Now That’s What I Call Gerrymandering!”
Mother Jones reports.
“FairVote’s Unique Methodology Shows That 52% of Voters Wanted a Democratic House”
“Calif. election law creates competition, less predictability”
“Only Four U.S. House Elections in the Last Hundred Years Gave One Party a House Majority, Even Though the Other Major Party Polled More Votes for U.S. House “
Ballot Access News: “Some analysts have already looked at the U.S. House elections from last week’s election, and determined that Democratic candidates received more popular votes than Republican candidates. Yet, it appears most likely that Republicans won 235 seats… Continue reading
“It’s Appalling that Gerrymandering Is Legal; And if the Supreme Court guts the Voting Rights Act, it’s going to get a lot worse.”
Emily Bazelon writes for Slate.