“I’m in support of any measures that make the process more fair to reflect the will of the people, instead of letting the politicians decide how to gerrymander,” says Kwon. In the voting booth, he ...
Mike Ahern, an Independent voter from Blacklick speaks to supporters at the Citizens Not Politicians rally, July 1, 2024, at the Statehouse in Columbus, Ohio. (Photo by Graham Stokes for Ohio ...
Three years after proposing that their rural counties secede from the state, western Maryland Republicans want to clarify that they never really wanted to leave.
The Portage County NAACP and Kent League of Women Voters will host a public forum Monday to "Take the Mystery Out of Gerrymandering." The event will be 7 p.m. Monday at North Water Brewing Co ...
Debbie Dalke established her credentials at the very beginning of informational session Monday on Issue 1, the proposed state constitutional amendment that would ban gerrymandering. When she lived in ...
Political experts tell the Report district lines could impact the results of the coming election, as redistricting — and gerrymandering — have helped Precincts 1 and 3 consistently swing in the same ...
But gerrymandering only tells part of the story. For a variety of reasons, few people participate in primaries. In fact, according to UA, only 7% of voting age Americans cast ballots in those 380 ...
Today there are only 82. One major factor in the elimination of competitive swing districts is gerrymandering, which could have a decisive impact on which party controls the House of ...
"Gerrymandering basically deals with the question, 'How do you draw the district lines? '" said Caleb Henry, a professor at Franciscan University of Steubenville. "Gerrymandering is when you are ...
But it’s legal, and both Republicans and Democrats do it. Gerrymandering, the process of redrawing voting districts to favour political parties, is almost as old as the United States and yet ...