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Concerns about the Cyber-Security of the 2020 Census Elevate

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The Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection at the Georgetown University Law Center has sent a signed letter to the Secretary of Commerce and the Acting Directer of the U.S.…

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Michigan State Supreme Court Hears Argument on Commission Ballot Initiative

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Last week, the Michigan State Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a case that pits redistricting reform advocates at odds with opponents about whether to allow a proposal for an…

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Video: A Neat Lesson on Less Obvious Gerrymanders

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People often often associate gerrymandering with "ugly," districts that have tortured boundaries, but many gerrymanders are quite pretty. This tutorial on gerrymandering by the Princeton Gerrymandering Project is one of…

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Leading Expert in Redistricting “Grofman,” Suggests a Path to Proving Partisan Gerrymandering

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Bernard Grofman, author, professor at the University of California at Irvine, and an expert witness in a multitude of redistricting cases, published this article in the Washington Post today. In…

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ABC News Takes a Deeper Look at Pennsylvania’s New Congressional Map

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Pennsylvania - The state's new congressional map drawn by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court may look more esthetically pleasing to most, but it has serious political implications. Watch ABC News…

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State Supreme Court Redraws Pennsylvania Congressional Map

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Pennsylvania - This January, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled the state's congressional map was an unconstitutional gerrymander. The plaintiffs had alleged the map is an eggregious partisan gerrymander executed by Republican state lawmakers that allowed…

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Redistricting Weekly Update : Atlases and Mathematicians in the Fray

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The FiveThirtyEight Blog Releases the Atlas of Redistricting, The Maps are Impressive but Unusable FiveThirtyEight takes a comprehensive look at the mapping possibilities for every congressional district in the…

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The FiveThirtyEight Blog Releases the Atlas of Redistricting. The Maps are Impressive but Unusable

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This week, the sports and politics polling blog FiveThirtyEight released its Atlas of Redistricting. It takes a comprehensive look at the mapping possibilities for every congressional district in the…

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Highlights from State Supreme Court Oral Argument in Pennsylvania Congressional Map Challenge

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Pennsylvania - On Wednesday, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court heard oral arguments in one of the challenges to the state's 2011 congressional map. The case, League of Women Voters of Pennsylvania…

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An Update on the Partisan Gerrymander Case Everyone is Talking About

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Wisconsin - It's the case that all the legal and social science geeks have been eyeing for months now. It offers maybe the best chance for the Supreme Court to finally…