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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.
Ohioans don't like gerrymandering, which is why both sides of the Issue 1 debate say they have a solution for it.
People gather during a rally to coincide with the Supreme Court hearings on the redistricting cases in Maryland and North Carolina, in front of the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., on March ...
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 ...
Federalist newspapers' editors and others at the time likened the district shape to a salamander, and the word gerrymander was born out of a portmanteau of that word and Governor Gerry's surname. Partisan gerrymandering, which refers to redistricting that favors one political party, has a long tradition in the United States.
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 ...
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 ...
Gerrymandering in the redistricting process has been a problem since the early days of the republic. [8] In recent years, critics have argued that redistricting has been used to neutralize minority voting power. [9] Supporters say it enhances electoral competitiveness. [10]