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MADISON, Wis. -- As newly-elected Democratic state senator and longtime former Kind aide Brad Pfaff announced his run Monday for Wisconsin's 3rd Congressional District, the race is taking shape as one of the biggest political battles to help decide House control in 2022.
Mathematicians, social scientists, lawyers and programmers have led the development of a new generation of free tools to make and evaluate redistricting maps. Can they make the process more transparent?
and last updated 2021-06-16 19:40:45-04 GREEN BAY (NBC 26) â If you've never heard of the terms 'redistricting' or 'gerrymandering', you're not alone. "Most folks don't really understand redistricting, how it happens, or when it happens and most times they've just trusted that it happened in a way that benefited them," said Carlene Bechen, the organizing director of the Wisconsin Fair Maps Coalition. Redistricting happens once every ten years when states re-draw their congressional districts after the decennial U.S census. The term 'gerrymandering' refers to the way political parties a...
Legislators, advocates and a mathematician push for nonpartisan voting districts.