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Gerrymandering will soon be super-charged by artificial intelligence to create wildly unfair and anti-democratic electoral districts.

POLITICO Is Gerrymandering About to Become More Difficult? A new approach in the way the Census aggregates its data could make it more difficult to do extreme gerrymandering, says Moon Duchin. POLITICO illustration Link Copied Zack Stanton is digital editor of Politico Magazine. The word “gerrymandering” prompts an image: district maps that look less like a tangible community than a Rorschach blot—perhaps one that suggests a “broken-winged pterodactyl,” as one federal judge referred to Maryland’s 3rd district. Read a line like that, and a certain intuition kicks in: There must be ...

Legislators, advocates and a mathematician push for nonpartisan voting districts.

WKSU WKSU listener Beki McCurdy stands by the front steps of her Alliance home. McCurdy asked WKSU's OH Really? why it seems nothing has been done yet regarding two redistricting reforms Ohio voters approved in 2015 and 2018. When Ohio legislators redrew the state’s congressional district map a decade ago, Stark County ended up split three ways among districts 7, 13, and 16. That won’t happen again when new maps are redrawn this year under a new process that aims to prevent gerrymandering, where lawmakers carve district lines to protect partisan seats. What comes next? You asked. We lo...