“Hiroshima Court Rules Election Invalid”
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.”
Category Archives: redistricting
“California Nonpartisan Districting Ousts Life Incumbents”
“Republicans Win Congress as Democrats Get Most Votes”
“Republicans Foil What Majority Wants by Gerrymandering”
Extensive Bloomberg report, and extensive graphics, focusing on gerrymandering in Michigan.
“New court filing: Documents were deleted from GOP redistricting computers”
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”
“The Consequences of Consequentialist Criteria”
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”
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”
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”
“California and the Limits of Independent Redistricting Commissions with Winner-Take-All”
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
“Over 200 organizations ask Census Bureau to develop solutions to ‘prison gerrymandering'”
Press release: “Today, more than 200 civil rights, voting rights and criminal justice organizations sent a letter calling on the U.S. Census Bureau to seize a timely opportunity to research alternative ways to count incarcerated people in the decennial Census.”
“Voting Rights 2.0: Why we still need the Voting Rights Act, and how the Supreme Court could make it work better instead of striking it down.”
Extensive and nuanced Emily Bazelon piece for Slate.
What To Do About the Texas Redistricting Case?
The Supreme Court’s decision over the constitutionality of section 5 and the Court’s failure to take action on Texas’s appeal in its section 5 redistricting case has put the three-judge federal court in San Antonio hearing the section 2 challenge… Continue reading