At a press conference in the Capitol Rotunda today, Governor Tony Evers and Christopher Ford – chair of the People’s Maps Commission – unveiled the commission’s final recommendations for new voting districts. Ford says that one of the main goals of the Commission was to provide citizens with the opportunity to give input on redistricting. […]
Redistricting in Wisconsin and Dane County
Every ten years, the Wisconsin state legislature draws new maps that divide the state into ninety-nine state Assembly districts and thirty-three state Senate districts. As Wisconsin approaches another redistricting process, we speak with State Senator Kelda Roys about redistricting, gerrymandering, and fair maps in advance of the legislature’s public hearing tomorrow. Then, for the second half […]
Li: Reform redistricting before it’s too late
Michael Li, Senior Counsel of the Democracy Program of the Brennan Center for Justice, calls voting rights “The Infrastructure of Democracy”, and worries that the proposed voting rights act, which will work toward fair redistricting and representation of all people in upcoming elections is taking a backdoor to the current budget bills and may not […]
Li: Congress needs to act on gerrymandering NOW!
The state of Ohio, with almost an even split of Democrat and Republican voters, has 12 districts represented by Republican politicians and only 4 districts by Democrats, according to Michael Li, Senior Counsel at the Brennan Center for Justice. In his recent article “Stopping Gerrymandering Can’t Wait” he says you can’t out-organize against gerrymandering, a […]
Right attempts to limit representation of minorities
The conservative right has concerns: the Latino, Black, and Asian population of the U. S. is growing faster than the Caucasian population, and this means lost votes. Their solution, to propose changing who is counted for representation. Yurij Rudensky, Counsel for the Brennan Center for Justice Democracy, has authored a report “Representation for Some: The […]
Democrats, Republicans gear up for redistricting brawls
Today, in a rally on the state capitol steps, lawmakers again called for a non-partisan redistricting process The coalition of Democratic lawmakers, joined by two Republicans, are resurfacing legislation that would let the state’s nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau draw the next decade’s electoral maps — instead of the Republican-controlled legislature. An identical set of proposals […]
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