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Yard signs for Issue 1 read "Ban gerrymandering" while those against Issue 1 read "Stop gerrymandering." The early voting window closes on Sunday, November 3. Election Day is Tuesday, November 5.
The commission voted to approve the settlement 4-1 Thursday, with Commissioner Joe Carollo voting no. Carollo, who disagreed with the judge’s gerrymandering finding, presented demographic data ...
Gerrymandering dates back to the 18th century, and damages democracy. ... News. Science & Tech. Shopping. Sports. Weather. 24/7 Help. ... Wildfires latest: At least 10,000 structures have burned ...
Republicans dominated the 2010 elections and were then able to “aggressively gerrymander as much as they wanted in many states” but in more recent elections “Democrats won governorships in a ...
The term gerrymandering is a portmanteau of a salamander and Elbridge Gerry, [a] [5] Vice President of the United States at the time of his death, who, as governor of Massachusetts in 1812, signed a bill that created a partisan district in the Boston area that was compared to the shape of a mythological salamander. The term has negative ...
But the latest gerrymandering wasn’t about crafting weirdly shaped districts to benefit the political party in power. ... CBS News. Meta is cutting 5% of its workforce, or more than 3,600 ...
It was the first partisan gerrymandering case taken by the Supreme Court after its landmark decision in Rucho v. Common Cause (2019) which stated that partisan gerrymandering claims present political questions beyond the reach of the federal courts, and the first racial gerrymandering case after the court's decision in Allen v. Milligan (2023).
The word gerrymander was reprinted numerous times in Federalist newspapers in Massachusetts, New England, and nationwide during the remainder of 1812. Gerrymandering soon began to be used to describe not only the original Massachusetts example, but also other cases of district-shape manipulation for partisan gain in other states.