Category Archives: redistricting

Harvard Law and Policy Review Publishes Symposium Issue: Elections In America

April 9, 2014, 7:53 pmcampaign finance, redistricting, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Volume 8-1 of the HLPR. Symposium: Elections in America Foreword, Congressman John P. Sarbanes & Raymond O’Mara III Three Wrong Progressive Approaches (and One Right One) to Campaign Finance Reform, Richard L. Hasen Free at Last: Rejecting … Continue reading

“The GOP advantage: Geography or gerrymandering?”

March 31, 2014, 7:21 ampolitical parties, political polarization, redistrictingRick Hasen

“Foxes, Henhouses, and Commissions: Assessing the Nonpartisan Model in Election Administration, Redistricting, and Campaign Finance”

March 27, 2014, 7:59 amcampaign finance, election administration, redistrictingRick Hasen

The UC Irvine Law Review has just posted the papers from a symposium I organized a year ago September. Here is the full set of excellent papers, which follow my (less excellent) Introduction. Volume 3: Issue No. 3 • August … Continue reading

1/3 of Justice Stevens’ Proposed Constitutional Amendments Concern Election Law

March 4, 2014, 9:13 amcampaign finance, redistricting, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

Josh Blackman lists the Six Amendments from Justice Stevens forthcoming book and two involve election law: Political Gerrymandering – Districts represented by members of Congress, or by members of any state legislative body, shall be compact and composed of… Continue reading

“Montana justices uphold rejection of redistricting lawsuit”

February 27, 2014, 6:38 pmredistrictingRick Hasen

The Missoulian reports.

“Court dismisses challenge to Arizona congressional maps”

February 22, 2014, 6:53 pmredistrictingRick Hasen

AZ Star: Arizona voters have a constitutional right to wrest control of drawing congressional boundaries from the Legislature, a federal court ruled late Friday. U.S. District Judge Murray Snow acknowledged the arguments by Peter Gentala, an attorney for the Republican-controlled… Continue reading

“Redistricting Reform in the South”

February 21, 2014, 6:22 pmalternative voting systems, redistrictingRick Hasen

New FairVote report.

“Residents And Advocates Sue City Of Cranston Over Redistricting Plan That Counts Incarcerated Population As Residents”

February 19, 2014, 9:23 amfelon voting, redistrictingRick Hasen

Demos press release.

“80,000 people protested in NC this weekend. Here’s why.”

February 11, 2014, 8:52 pmelection administration, redistricting, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

The Fix mentions, among other things, redistricting and voting wars isses.

“Has California cured its political dysfunction? Not so fast.”

January 30, 2014, 3:27 pmpolitical parties, political polarization, primaries, redistrictingRick Hasen

Eric McGhee and Paul Mitchell with an important corrective for stuff like this.

“The 2020 Reapportionment and the Voting Rights Act”

January 30, 2014, 2:07 pmredistricting, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Must-read Sean Trende post.

“North Carolina justices will not delay 2014 elections”

January 26, 2014, 9:07 pmredistrictingRick Hasen

AP: “The 2014 elections will go on as planned after North Carolina’s highest court refused to delay them while the justices consider the legality of the most recent version of election districts.”

“Don’t Blame the Maps”

January 24, 2014, 4:25 pmredistrictingRick Hasen

Jowei Chen and Jonathan Rodden in NYT’s Sunday Review: DO the Republicans owe their current congressional majority to gerrymandering? At first glance, it seems self-evident that they do. In the 2012 election, the Democrats won the popular votes for the… Continue reading

“Hawaii redistricting upheld”

January 21, 2014, 7:52 amredistricting, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

Lyle Denniston: The Supreme Court, in a one-line order without explanation, on Tuesday upheld the 2012 plan for redistricting the state legislature in Hawaii. A three-judge federal district court had rejected challenges to the plan by residents of Oahu.… Continue reading