Three years after proposing that their rural counties secede from the state, western Maryland Republicans want to clarify that they never really wanted to leave.

The Portage County NAACP and Kent League of Women Voters will host a public forum Monday to "Take the Mystery Out of Gerrymandering." The event will be 7 p.m. Monday at North Water Brewing Co ...

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 ...

The Columbus Metropolitan Club hosted a conversation Issue 1 Wednesday. Supporters of Issue 1 on the panel were Ohio Supreme Court Chief Justice Maureen O'Connor and Kareem Crayton, vice president ...

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Gerrymandering occurs when the borders of voting districts are drawn to favor one party at the expense of another. The political party in power often draws these district lines to make it easier ...

If anything, political commissioners worry more about being primaried if they don’t gerrymander enough than losing general elections for unfair drawing. The biggest problem I see with the ...