Gerrymandering: Moving from ‘cracking’ and ‘packing’ to fairness
Gerrymandering: Moving from ‘cracking’ and ‘packing’ to fairness
On Oct. 3, the United States Supreme Court heard Gil vs. Whitford, a Wisconsin case regarding extreme partisan gerrymandering of the Wisconsin Legislature. In that case, Republicans drew a legislative […]
Plaintiffs Want Texas Congressional Districts Redrawn for 2018
*Why you should read this: Because this is huge! Because this could represent a crack in the GOP gerrymendered stronghold in staunch-red Texas. Because it may be the path to […]
Justices rule 5-4 that independent panels can draw election district lines
*Expect a rush of lawsuits across the country challenging the way electoral districts are drawn. Political parties in state legislatures used the old system of drawing districts to perpetuate their […]
GOP Latino Vote Manipulation Shows They Can’t Get Past Race
Republican gerrymanderers were planning to create a “metric” to manipulate the numbers of Latinos to the advantage of the Republican Party before the redistricting process in Texas even began, according […]
Texas Redistricting: The Telenovela
A lot of people have commented lately that all of this redistricting business, especially in Texas, is terribly confusing and consequently, no one cares. For political nerds like me, that’s […]
Texas Redistricting Maps Boost Latino Seats
By Michael Li The three-judge panel in Washington released its interim map proposals for the state house and senate today. The maps can be found here The senate map is Plan […]
Lawsuit Over LA County Latino Seat In The Works
In Los Angeles County earlier this year race came front and center when the Board of Supervisors voted down the creation of another Latino seat and now it seems a […]
DOJ Finds Latino Politico Disenfranchised Latino Voters
By Rebecca Acuña, Dep. Political Director for Base Outreach for the Texas Democratic Party Republican State Representative John Garza rejected the inclusion of politically organized Hispanics in his district. That […]
Race At Center Of Creating Latino Majority LA County Seat
You can slice it pretty much any way you want, but it appears as though race was very squarely front and center in the recent fight to create another Latino-majority […]
Rick Perry’s Voter Legislation Disenfranchises Latino Voters
By Rebecca Acuña, Dep. Political Director for Base Outreach for the Texas Democratic Party The 82nd legislative session began on a precipice of disaster. Absent of the federal stimulus dollars […]
