by Alejandro Morles | Feb 26, 2022 | University of Chicago
On February 7, 2022, the Supreme Court, in a 5-4 decision, ruled that a potentially illegal congressional map of Alabama may be used in the upcoming 2022 election. Critics of this decision point out the blatant race-packing under the proposed map, where Black voters...
by Ryan Leung | Feb 25, 2022 | University of Chicago
History of Gerrymandering in the United States The term gerrymandering was first coined in 1812 by the Boston Gazette. The term was created in reference to how certain districts in the Massachusetts district map looked after the Jeffersonian Republicans had...
by Clare Daumeyer | Feb 14, 2022 | Ohio State University
U.S. voters are no stranger to gerrymandering. The term has been around for over a century now and describes the process of drawing boundaries of congressional districts that give one party an advantage over another. Considering the U.S. is a strictly two-party...
by Jason Wright | Feb 14, 2022 | Ohio State University
Following the conclusion of the 2020 Census in the United States, all fifty states began the process of legislative redistricting. Redistricting is the mechanism through which the boundaries of state...
by Sofia Delgado | Feb 4, 2022 | University of Chicago
Following a worrying trend of anti-democratic actions taken by Wisconsin’s Republican politicians, in November of 2021, U.S. Senator Ron Johnson called for a unilateral takeover of the state’s bipartisan Elections Commission (WEC) by the Republican-controlled...
