Category Archives: redistricting

“Groups call on Newby to recuse himself in redistricting dispute”

November 27, 2012, 8:10 amjudicial elections, redistrictingRick Hasen

NC Policy Watch: “n papers filed today, the North Carolina NAACP and other state groups and individuals suing to overturn redistricting plans approved by the legislature in 2010 asked Supreme Court Justice Paul Newby to remove himself from the… Continue reading

Quote of the Day

November 26, 2012, 9:03 amelectoral college, redistrictingRick Hasen

“For one party to win a majority of House seats with a minority of votes is a relatively rare occurrence. It has now happened five times in the past hundred years. In 1914 and 1942, the Democrats were the beneficiaries.… Continue reading

“Guest Column: Arizona’s nonpartisan redistricting creates fairer election outcomes”

November 21, 2012, 8:49 amcitizen commissions, redistrictingRick Hasen

Elliott Weiss has written this oped for the Arizona Daily Star.

“California’s Post-Partisan Experiment”

November 20, 2012, 10:46 ampolitical parties, primaries, redistrictingRick Hasen

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”

November 15, 2012, 8:33 pmredistrictingRick Hasen

More, at the Monkey Cage.

“Partisan bias in U.S. House elections”

November 15, 2012, 8:01 pmredistrictingRick Hasen

Rob Richie has written this WaPo oped.

Federal Court in San Antonio Ponders Staying Texas Redistricting Case Until SCOTUS Decides Shelby County

November 14, 2012, 2:40 pmredistricting, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

See this order.

“Redistricting does not explain why House Democrats got a majority of the vote and a minority of the seats”

November 14, 2012, 10:19 amredistrictingRick Hasen

This item appears at The Monkey Cage.

“GOP’s Gerrymandered Advantages”

November 14, 2012, 9:55 amredistrictingRick Hasen

Harold Myerson WaPo column.

“Now That’s What I Call Gerrymandering!”

November 14, 2012, 9:44 amredistrictingRick Hasen

Mother Jones reports.

“FairVote’s Unique Methodology Shows That 52% of Voters Wanted a Democratic House”

November 13, 2012, 12:27 pmredistrictingRick Hasen

See here.

“Calif. election law creates competition, less predictability”

November 12, 2012, 8:44 pmpolitical parties, primaries, redistrictingRick Hasen

John Myers’ video report.

“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 “

November 12, 2012, 11:37 amredistrictingRick Hasen

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