As states from Texas to California debate and vote on new electoral maps, Americans are both learning about – and often disgusted by – the scale of gerrymandering in their states. The result is that ...

Utahans looking at the multiple rainbow colored redistricting maps currently before Judge Dianna Gibson in the litigation challenging the shapes of Utah’s four U. S. congressional districts could ...

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — A debate that Virginia Beach voters faced for years is one step closer to ending. On Election Day Tuesday, Virginia Beach voters were given a referendum on their ballots with the ...

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Capitol Weekly welcomes Opinions on California public policy or politics. Please read our guidelines for opinion pieces before submitting an Op-Ed. OPINION – Recent polling shows that Prop 50 – ...

The November election includes a ballot question asking voters, “Shall an Act Establishing a Charter for the City of Cambridge be accepted?” In 2021, voters passed a change to the charter to establish ...

Earlier this month, Vice President J. D. Vance posted on X, “New England’s six states vote about 40 percent Republican and have literally zero Republican representatives in Congress.” Vance is not the ...

Oct. 20 (UPI) --The U.S. Supreme Court is weighing a decision in the case Louisiana vs. Callais that may guide how the Voting Rights Act is enforced. The high court heard rearguments last week in the ...

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PR is the principle that a party’s share of votes should match its share of legislative seats. Systems built on that principle treat votes for candidates as votes for their parties, too. Thus, it ...

California has long positioned itself as a beacon of democratic reform. But Governor Gavin Newsom’s Proposition 50—to redraw congressional maps mid-decade explicitly to flip five GOP-held seats—is a ...