SACRAMENTO — Gerrymandering was supposed to be cured by redistricting reform. No chance. It’s still alive and well in California. That was evident in the just-completed once-a-decade redrawing ...

California's districts were actually drawn ... And that's real the takeaway here. Gerrymandering is increasingly viewed as a political ill that must be dealt with. And there is generally ...

Sponsored “Gerrymandering has led to extreme partisanship, which we are seeing all over the country right now, and it means that government can’t get the work of the people done. I feel that we played ...

New York and California. While most good government advocates would say that eliminating gerrymandering is a positive development in these states, it could disadvantage Democrats because ...

Harper, a case over redistricting in North Carolina that could give California Democrats the power to gerrymander. It relies on the “independent legislature theory,” and it interprets the ...

The practice is known as partisan gerrymandering ... a political party when redrawing voting districts, including California, Colorado, Florida, Hawaii, Michigan, New York, Ohio and Washington ...

When it comes to gerrymandering, the Supreme Court has been reluctant to intervene. In fact, a 2024 SCOTUS ruling made it much more difficult to challenge state redistricting plans as unconstitutional ...

At least for some districts in Denton County, the gerrymandering that the Republican ... I’m one of those California transplants referred to in this letter. I left California in 1977, which ...

Recent history aside, SLO County’s recent party-line vote to back Laird’s bill is another potent signal that the work to stamp out partisan gerrymandering in California is far from over.

For example, then-Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger tackled gerrymandering in California by creating a commission of impartial Californians to draw districts. Members of this commission apply of their ...

And these advantages often run counter to the will of voters. Researchers attributed this effect to “gerrymandering,” which is the redrawing of voting district boundaries in ways that intentionally ...

Lastly, the battle for control of the House of Representatives came down to a few key house districts in Maine, California ... which the gerrymander guaranteed. Among the 14 Democrat wins ...