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The Electoral Innovation Lab / Princeton Gerrymandering Project will present a virtual Academic Talk with Jonathan Rodden, Professor of Political Science at Stanford and senior fellow at the Hoover Institution. Rodden’s talk is titled “Partisan Dislocation: A Precinct-Level Measure of Representation and Gerrymandering,” and will take place in this Zoom room at 1:30 PM ET on December 10th. Please RSVP to jrhode@princeton.edu  Jonathan Rodden is a professor in the political science department at Stanford who works on the comparative political economy of institutions. He has writte...

The party faces long-term hurdles that will be hard to overcome | United States

Why Democrats have to be bold and careful at the same time

HARRISBURG — When Amanda Holt was preparing to vote in 2010, she noticed something odd about the congressional districts within her county. One small voting precinct of about 2,000 people in Lehigh County was in a different U.S. House district than the rest of the county’s precincts, and she couldn’t understand why. As her curiosity grew, she noticed other oddities — a township randomly carved out of a congressional district, counties that could have fit into entire state Senate districts but were instead split between several — that she thought didn’t follow the...

, a project focused on election integrity and voting access. HARRISBURG — When Amanda Holt was preparing to vote in 2010, she noticed something odd about the congressional districts within her county. One small voting precinct of about 2,000 people in Lehigh County was in a different U.S. House district than the rest of the county’s precincts, and she couldn’t understand why. As her curiosity grew, she noticed other oddities — a township randomly carved out of a congressional district, counties that could have fit into entire state Senate districts but were instead spli...