The word "Gerrymander" was actually named after someone — Elbridge Gerry. But the 18th-century politician pronounced it more like Gary than Gerry. Why don't we? Photo: Library of Congress ...

Gerrymandering is when politicians manipulate voting district boundaries to favor one party over another. In most states, state legislators and the governor control the once-a-decade line-drawing ...

Has your definition of “gerrymandering” changed since you started working on this issue? Yes and no. My thoughts about how to detect it have changed.

→ It’s OK to gerrymander, as long you discriminate by politics → Joe Biden should admit Republicans are (partly) right about border security From the October 14th 2023 edition ...

Gerrymandering is as old as the US republic itself. It’s the process of drawing congressional district lines in sometimes absurd ways to fortify one political party at the expense of another.

Anticipating that the U.S. Supreme Court would not prohibit partisan gerrymandering, Ohio voters in 2015 and 2018 approved, with more than a 70% vote each, constitutional amendments to bar ...

In North Carolina, a partisan gerrymander that would have given Republicans as many as 11 out of 14 seats was overturned. The replacement map elected seven Republicans and seven Democrats.