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Fifty-one percent of those surveyed favored keeping the current electoral maps despite efforts by both Democrats and Republicans to create new ones.

A federal judge Thursday ordered Georgia to draw new congressional and state legislative maps, ruling that state legislators improperly diluted the political power of Black voters in establishing those boundaries following the 2020 census.

A federal judge struck down Georgia’s Republican-drawn congressional and state legislative maps Thursday, ruling they violated the Voting Rights Act by diluting the power of Black voters. U.S. District Judge Steve Jones’s ruling gives the state Legislature until Dec. 8 to draw new lines before the court will step in to order its own remedial…

The Wisconsin Senate hosted a public hearing on a Republican bill to change how the state's legislative maps are drawn, ahead of the Wisconsin Supreme Court hearing a case trying to toss the state's current legislative maps ahead of the 2024 election.

As GOP draws new NC district maps, hope for a ‘dummymander’ | Opinion

The Wisconsin Supreme Court rejected a lawsuit that sought to block state lawmakers from impeaching Justice Janet Protasiewicz, whose win flipped the high court to a liberal majority for the first time in 15 years last month. The Supreme Court handed down its decision Tuesday to not hear the lawsuit, issuing the order without comment. The court…

Although meant to happen once every 10 years, North Carolina has had new legislative maps every year but one since 2017, usually due to gerrymandering cases.

Although meant to happen once every 10 years, North Carolina has had new legislative maps every year but one since 2017, usually due to gerrymandering cases.

Rushed, secretive redistricting effort stokes suspicions.

The Republican-controlled Wisconsin State Assembly has voted to change how the state’s legislative maps are drawn – a major shift in strategy as Republicans face the possibility that the new liberal majority on the Wisconsin Supreme Court could throw out the current electoral maps, which give the GOP an advantage.