Eefficiency Gap News Today

A new study from WILL takes aim at the flawed 'efficiency gap' math the left uses to accuse Republicans of gerrymandering.

This is the second of a two-part series – a collaboration between the Bulletin and NHPR – about redistricting in New Hampshire. When New Hampshire voters head to the polls in just a couple of weeks, a good number will find themselves casting their...

The new state Senate map seems poised to perpetuate the existing pro-Republican tilt of the current map — and could crank it up even further.

Congresswoman, you heard my brief summary of whats happening in your state right now. what i neglected to mention is that republicans can show chaos in sow chaos. they have ironclad control of their assembly. thats why they can sow this chaos and show this chaos. for example, in 2019, they held nearly two thirds of the seat, even though democrats got 53% marmgt of the votes. how does that happen? is federal election reform the solution here? >> thanks for having me, reverend al. great being -- a...

Though -- like the scenario you described where this last election, over 200 -- democrats cast over 200,000 more -- more votes than republicans. republicans still have two-thirds of the seat. and, you know, four years ago, when donald trump won, republicans cast -- with that greater enthusiasm, they won 161,000 more votes than democrats. but guess what? two-thirds of the seats were held by republicans because of this efficiency gap. so that, no matter what effort that we make, their gerrymandere...

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Republicans legislators with safe seats needn’t worry about voter blowback. By Mel Barnes - Feb 7th, 2021 09:45 am //end headline wrapper ?> Mask. (Pixabay License). It didn’t have to be this way. Our state Legislature could be doing more to help Wisconsinites, but they aren’t. Why? Because too many legislative districts are drawn so that elected representatives don’t have to be responsive to their constituents. State government is fighting itself at ever...

Justice kennedy in the middle, but theres not consistently been the case and it shouldnt be the case. >> this is the most difficult question of all. in 60 seconds, are you able to lay out the solution youve devised where the court said in the past, well, we dont like it, but how do we fix it? whats your fix? >> so we have a three-part test we think is workable and the lower court agreed its workable. prong onefuls a math test with discriminatory intent, so in order to benefit one party and handi...

Opponent is has more wasted votes than you do, and they are winning their seats less efficiently, and this idea and the eefficiency gap is the party that has an advantage will have more seats for aics iffed vote share. >> right. >> thats the measure i propose. >> if we were to remove the efficiency gap if you will, or put it in, and in certain cases, where would we be in the house today? >> well, thats -- its actually a more complicated question than that because there are some issues of -- of i...

Appeals court agreed for the first time in decades a court reached a ruling like that coming to the supreme court where the justices in the past have been very skeptical of claims about political gerrymandering and have had cases in the past where congressional districts and legislative districts are struck down because theyre racial gerrymanders. what is the test? how do you know when a state has gone too far. the challengers here say easy, look at something they call the efficiency gap and whe...