Excerpt: Proposed by voter petitions, it’s called the “Citizens Not Politicians” amendment and would end gerrymandering ...

This allowed them to pick with precision which voters they’d like to have in each district—a process known as gerrymandering. Typically, the party in control of the state legislature has two ways to ...

On Monday, Cleveland public broadcaster Ideastream’s Sound of Ideas program held a public panel on Issue 1 at Oberlin’s Dye Lecture Hall. The event, which drew around 150 people, was broadcast on WKSU ...

Unsurprisingly, the decline in the number of bellwether districts tracks the growth in single-party control of the redistricting process in states and the corresponding rise in aggressive ...

The recent history of gerrymandering has set the stage to keep races uncompetitive in Tarrant County, said Mark Hand, a political science professor at the University of Texas at Arlington.

Debbie Dalke established her credentials at the very beginning of informational session Monday on Issue 1, the proposed state constitutional amendment that would ban gerrymandering. When she lived in ...

Today there are only 82. One major factor in the elimination of competitive swing districts is gerrymandering, which could have a decisive impact on which party controls the House of ...

"Gerrymandering basically deals with the question, 'How do you draw the district lines? '" said Caleb Henry, a professor at Franciscan University of Steubenville. "Gerrymandering is when you are ...

But it’s legal, and both Republicans and Democrats do it. Gerrymandering, the process of redrawing voting districts to favour political parties, is almost as old as the United States and yet ...

Proponents say the idea would create a “bipartisan” system to end gerrymandering. But the giveaway of the real purpose is that the ballot measure is funded by a partisan coterie of unions and ...