Republican victories in state legislative and gubernatorial elections in 2010 put them in a commanding position the next year to draw new voting districts for the U.S. House and state legislatures that helped fortify Republican power for much of the ...

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Republican senators rolled out a plan to ask Missouri voters to undo key parts of a nationally unique redistricting model that directs a demographer to draw new legislative districts with “partisan fairness” and “competitiveness” as top criteria. The Republican proposal ...

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The reins of political power in the U.S. for the next decade could be determined in this year’s elections — not necessarily by who wins the presidency, but by thousands of lower-profile contests for state legislative seats across the country. ...

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While ruling that it had no authority to resolve partisan gerrymandering claims, the U.S. Supreme Court noted that states could act on their own to try to limit the role of politics in drawing congressional and state legislative districts. Several ...

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The U.S. Supreme Court will consider whether states can use independent commissions to draw federal congressional district boundaries in a test of efforts to make elections more competitive.

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