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Jul 5, 2023 · Researchers found tactic, widely used in 2020, made little difference in partisan numbers but yielded safe seats, less-responsive representatives. Harvard researchers say gerrymandering is still a problem, but for perhaps less-obvious reasons.
- An algorithm to detect gerrymandering
New waves of statisticians, including a team at Harvard,...
- An algorithm to detect gerrymandering
Mar 13, 2024 · ‘Gerrymandering is one of the biggest risks we face for democracy’. This was the result of gerrymandering – the practice of drawing districts in a way that maximizes the seats of one party or...
Apr 1, 2024 · Gerrymandering dates back to the 18th century, and damages democracy. But independent commissions can be a solution.
Feb 14, 2022 · The latest gerrymandering shows how dysfunctional the U.S. political system has become. There's a better way to vote that counts every voter.
- Lee Drutman
Jun 9, 2023 · The latest redistricting cycle was the first since the Supreme Court’s 2019 ruling that gerrymandering for party advantage cannot be challenged in federal court. Here are six things to know about partisan gerrymandering and how it impacts our democracy.
Nov 3, 2022 · New waves of statisticians, including a team at Harvard, have developed tools they think can help police the longstanding problem of gerrymandering of congressional and legislative districts in states by parties seeking to tip the scales for their candidates.
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Sep 30, 2022 · Gerrymandering is a real problem for American democracy, especially in the drawing of state legislature districts, as The New Yorker’s Jane Mayer recently documented.
