Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Democrats and pro-democracy organizations held a rally Oct. 16 to call for the creation of an independent redistricting commission ...

Democracy is deteriorating in much of the world and changes in the United States under President Donald Trump threaten to accelerate the decline, according to a pro-democracy institute that has the ...

Virginia has joined six other states in approving new partisan political maps that could influence which party gets control ...

Texas Republicans have just unveiled new Trump-ordered congressional maps that eliminate five Democratic-held seats—deliberately shifting them to the GOP in a bid to lock down control of the U.S.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Feb. 13—Proponents of a state constitutional amendment to establish a non-political map-drawing process on Friday announced the ...

Gov. JB Pritzker’s beating the drum on legislative maps again. No, he’s not attending to our egregiously gerrymandered state. He’s riled up about mapmaking drama in Texas. Right now, like other ...

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President Donald Trump’s drive to secure Republican advantage in the House through mid-decade redistricting, and Democrats’ move to retaliate, could supercharge the partisan shift in Congress. Samuel ...