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The Democrats lost the House in 2022 in large part due to state-level GOP gerrymandering in Texas and other key states.

Electoral redistricting is a high-stakes political game, so Democrats and Republicans have a hard time playing fair. When they’re made to work together, a more representative result is possible.

U.S. District Judge Steve Jones rejected claims that the new maps don’t do enough to help Black voters.

Georgia lawmakers will open a special session Wednesday as majority Republicans move to minimize their losses while also trying to increase the number of Black-majority districts to comply with a federal court order. It's one in a series of redistricting sessions across the South after the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the 1964 Voting Rights Act, clearing the way for Black voters to win changes from courts. Georgia House Republicans on Tuesday released a map that would likely cost them only t...

Georgia lawmakers will open a special session Wednesday as majority Republicans move to minimize their losses while also trying to increase the number of Black-majority districts to comply with a federal court order.

If the 8th Circuit’s ruling is upheld, it would strip voters of the ability to fight back against disenfranchisement. | Opinion

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has vetoed legislation that would have required dozens of his state's largest cities, counties and educational districts to use independent commissions to draw voting districts, dealing a setback to “redistricting reform” advocates.

There will be more voting districts for next year's general elections.

As the village of Skokie continues its process to divide the village into four voting districts so that one village board member can be elected from each, a consultant showed residents the proposed map options at a Sept. 11 meeting. The move comes after voters approved electoral reforms in a referendum in last November’s election. Among the measures that voters approved are a provision that, ...

Evan Milligan, plaintiff in an Alabama case that could have far-reaching effects on minority voting power across the U.S., speaks outside the U.S. Supreme Court on Oct. 4, 2022. AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, FileIn a rebuke of the Alabama legislature, a panel of three federal judges rejected on Sept. 5, 2023, the state’s proposed voting districts that failed to create a second district where Black voters could elect a political candidate of their choice. In rejecting the legislature’s...