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Utah Voters Fought Back After Their Fair Voting Districts Constitutional Amendment was Gutted by an Anti-Voter Legislature. They Won.

July 18, 2024July 18, 2024

Utah voters passed the Better Boundaries Proposition 4 in 2018, setting standards for competitive, nonpartisan redistricting. Utah’s legislature, in an effort to retain partisan power, gutted that amendment. The state supreme court just ruled for the voters.

Will an Appeal Give New York’s Bipartisan Redistricting Committee Another Chance to Draw Fair Maps?

November 19, 2023November 19, 2023

In 2014, a New York constitutional amendment created the New York Independent Redistricting Commission. But the redistricting commission lacked both independence and authority, and the 2021 maps ended up in the legislature and ultimately the courts. The Congressional map was in court again last week.

With Court Cases and Elections Looming, the Wisconsin Assembly Scrambles to Protect its Gerrymandered Voting Districts

September 13, 2023December 29, 2023

Republicans in the Wisconsin Senate have a 66% veto-proof supermajority. Republicans in the Wisconsin Assembly are two votes short of a supermajority. Yet the Governor of Wisconsin is a Democrat. How is that possible? Gerrymandering. And the majority of Wisconsin’s legislators want to keep it that way.

ADM for Sept. 1, 2022: Redistricting Stalemate in Ohio Continues; Questions Raised About State Supreme Court Justice

August 31, 2022August 31, 2022

We have two stories today from Ohio. We’re updating our series of stories about Ohio’s ongoing redistricting fiasco, and in a related story, the refusal of a justice on Ohio’s Supreme Court to recuse himself.

American Democracy Minute for July 29, 2022: Ohio Supreme Court Rejects Another GOP Congressional District Map for Partisan Gerrymandering

July 28, 2022July 28, 2022

We’re headed back to Ohio today, where on July 19, the Ohio Supreme Court rejected another set of GOP-drawn Congressional district maps because they were gerrymandered for partisan gain.