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, 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 split between sever...

WHYY By Marie Albiges, Spotlight PAMay 3, 2021 While a court declared Pennsylvania's previous congressional map was drawn to benefit Republicans, the current legislative maps have not faced the same level of scrutiny. (Charles Fox/Philadelphia Inquirer) This story originally appeared on Spotlight PA. ___ This article is part of a yearlong reporting project focused on redistricting and gerrymandering in Pennsylvania. It is made possible by the support of Spotlight PA members and Votebeat, a project focused on election integrity and voting access. When Amanda Holt was preparing to vote in 201...

Philadelphia Inquirer Amanda Holt, a graphic artist and piano teacher from Allentown, drew her own political maps after noticing oddities in the ones drawn by lawmakers. This article is part of a yearlong reporting project focused on redistricting and gerrymandering in Pennsylvania. It is made possible by the support of Spotlight PA members and Votebeat, a project focused on election integrity and voting access. 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 Leh...

While a court declared Pennsylvania's previous congressional map was drawn to benefit Republicans, the current legislative maps have not faced the same level of scrutiny.

There was great news for electoral reform campaigners in the Spectator last week. Nick Tyrone, the former director of the liberal CentreForum think tank, claimed proportional representation would “hand the Tories power for the rest of the century”. Those at Conservative HQ must be kicking themselves for defending the first-past-the-post (FPTP) system all these years. Now that they know why they’ve only been in government for two-thirds of the last 70 years (not bad, given they've never received a majority of the popular vote), we can expect next month’s Queen’s Speech to announ...