14

Jan

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Listen: Supreme Court Oral Argument in Wisconsin Partisan Gerrymandering Case Whitford v. Gill

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLu61vk-kns&t=102s The case is a challenge to Wisconsin's state legislative district map.  It alleges the Wisconsin state assembly drew politically gerrymandered districts to entrench Republican power in 2011.  Plaintiffs claim…

14

Jan

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Everything You Wanted to Know About the Wisconsin Partisan Gerrymandering Case in One Infographic

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  If you have been meaning to do a Google search and read up on the partisan gerrymandering case over Wisconsin's state legislative district map, but you don't have the 3…

14

Jan

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Federal Court: North Carolina Congressional Districts Illegal Partisan Gerrymander

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North Carolina - On January 9th, a three-judge panel of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina ruled that the state's 2016 Plan violates the Equal…

20

Apr

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Michigan Launches Anti-Gerrymandering Campaign on Four Fronts

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Michigan -  The Voters Not Politicians Ballot Committee is looking to end partisan gerrymandering in the state for good.  The group, including Wayne State University political science professor Kevin Deegan-Krause, will be…

02

Feb

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Maryland Judge Orders Legislative Leaders to Testify in Partisan Gerrymandering Case

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Maryland - Nearly four years after Bethesda, Md. resident Stephen M. Shapiro and other Maryland voters filed a partisan gerrymandering lawsuit against Maryland's congressional district map, a judge has ordered…

08

Jan

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Briefs on Timing of a Remedy Filed in Wisconsin Partisan Gerrymandering Case

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Wisconsin - A federal district court last November found Wisconsin's 2011 Republican-drawn state assembly map to be an unconstitutional partisan gerrymander.  That almost never happens. (more…)

06

Dec

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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…

29

Nov

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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…

28

Nov

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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…