Meet The Democrat’s Secret Redistricting Weapon in 2020

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Watch MSNBC interview Kelly Ward, former executive director of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee about her new role as the Democrat party's answer to the wildly successful national Republican redistricting…

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Cumulative Voting for School Board Ordered By Federal Court in Missouri

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Missouri - Late last month a federal district court ended a two year challenge to the Ferguson-Florissant School District's use of at-large elections for its seven member school board. The court…

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NPR and Scotusblog Recap Oral Arguments in Racial Gerrymandering Case

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Wash. DC - NPR's Nina Totenberg recaps Supreme Court oral arguments in , Bethune-Hill v. Virginia State Board of Elections and McCrory v. Harris; the racial gerrymandering claims arising from the…

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Duke University Team Dabbles with Its Own Algorithm for Measuring Partisan Gerrymandering

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North Carolina - It isn't Efficiency Gap Analysis, but a team of mathematicians at Duke University's Sanford School of Public Policy have applied its own model (Markov Chain Monte Carlo…

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NPR Talks with Law Profs About Racial Gerrymandering in the Supreme Court

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Wash. DC - NPR's Nina Totenberg discusses the North Carolina racial gerrymandering claim to be heard today before the U.S. Supreme Court. Totenberg chats with Stanford law professor Nathaniel Persily…

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Packing Minorities Into Districts. When Is That Ever Okay?

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Washington DC - The Supreme Court will tackle that question today as it hears oral arguments in two redistricting cases. Both cases are alleged racial gerrymander claims; one orginating from…

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Discussion on Wisconsin Partisan Gerrymandering Decision on Bloomberg

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Listen to Stanford Law Professor Nathan Persily and Ruth Greenwood, deputy director of Redistricting at the Campaign Legal Center, discuss a Wisconsin federal panel's approval of a long-sought after measure…

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Efficiency Gap Analysis Gets This Early Critique from Princeton Professor

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Princeton biophysics professor San Wang has an early critique of Efficiency Gap analysis (EG) - a method for measuring partisan gerrymandering that received unexpected support from a federal district court…

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Federal District Court Finds Partisan Gerrymander in Wisconsin Assembly Map

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Wisconsin - A three-judge federal district court in Wisconsin has invalidated the Republican-drawn state assembly district map enacted in August 2011 as an unconstitutional partisan gerrymander. If the ruling stands -…

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Court Rules 28 of 170 N.C. Legislative Districts are Racial Gerrymanders

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North Carolina - Last Thursday, a three-judge U.S. District Court panel ruled that 28 of the Republican-drawn districts for the N.C. legislature were indeed unconstitutional racial gerrymanders. The Republican practice of…