Process by which existing congressional districts are re-divided for political and electoral purposes.
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Now that congressional maps are likely finalized for the 2024 elections, we know that the House battlefield will be even more tilted toward Republicans this year than it was in 2022. This state of ...
by Stephen Wolf
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on Fri Mar 29, 2024 at 07:24 AM PDT
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Each day, Wisconsin Dems wake up, stretch, find coffee… and realize once again that our state legislative maps are no longer rigged for permanent GOP control.� We live in a democracy now. It ...
by Ben Wikler
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on Mon Mar 11, 2024 at 07:00 AM PDT
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The petitioning period in New York State initially kicked off this year without any clear districting lines, putting candidates and voters in a situation of uncertainty. And this is not the first time. This scenario not only places politicians in a...
by IndiePundit
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on Tue Mar 05, 2024 at 03:31 PM PST
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During the 2022 redistricting saga, when the Special Master appointed by the New York State Supreme Court, Dr. Jonathan Cervas, drafted an initial remedial map that almost evenly divided Saratoga County between the 20th Congressional District currently...
by Upstate Blue
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on Tue Feb 27, 2024 at 06:35 PM PST
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Democratic legislators in New York unveiled a new congressional map on Tuesday, but it's a far cry from the aggressive gerrymander that many were expecting—and many partisans were hoping for. According to data from Dave's Redistricting App, the new...
by Stephen Wolf
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on Tue Feb 27, 2024 at 10:07 AM PST
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Today, Monday February 19 2024, Wisconsin governor Tony Evers signed new state legislative maps into law, ending ~14 years of GOP gerrymandering. Even so, some progressives are just a bit upset about these final maps, because they didn’t give the Dems...
by Exia
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on Mon Feb 19, 2024 at 04:06 PM PST
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Democratic Gov. Tony Evers signed new legislative districts into law on Monday to replace gerrymandered Republican maps that the new liberal majority on the Wisconsin Supreme Court struck down in December. If the court signs off on the new maps,...
by Stephen Wolf
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on Mon Feb 19, 2024 at 08:13 AM PST
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New York's bipartisan redistricting commission approved a new congressional map in a 9-1 vote on Thursday that makes only modest changes to the court-drawn map that was used in 2022. The heavily Democratic legislature must approve the map before it can...
by Stephen Wolf
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on Thu Feb 15, 2024 at 01:47 PM PST
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The Morning Digest is compiled by David Nir, Jeff Singer, and Stephen Wolf, with additional contributions from the Daily Kos Elections team. Subscribe to The Downballot, our weekly podcast Leading Off ● Redistricting: New congressional maps in...
by Daily Kos Elections
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on Wed Feb 07, 2024 at 05:00 AM PST
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There’s been a lot of Gerrymandering going on recently, most notably by the GOP, but the Democrats don’t exactly have clean hands either. Basically, the party in power tries to stay in power by whatever means necessary. I’ve often thought that...
by freemab
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on Tue Jan 30, 2024 at 07:06 AM PST
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I spent two weeks visiting and talking to organizers and volunteers in the states where Hope Springs from Field PAC volunteers canvassed last year. The first week, my Western States swing, took place in December and were diaried here (Arizona, Nevada,...
by snowbored
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on Fri Jan 26, 2024 at 09:43 AM PST
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Rep. Garret Graves does not sound ready to call it quits despite getting targeted for political extinction by his fellow Republicans in Louisiana's new congressional map, which Gov. Jeff Landry signed into law on Monday. “I expect to run,” Graves tells...
by David Nir
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on Mon Jan 22, 2024 at 01:28 PM PST
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Louisiana's Republican-run legislature approved a new congressional map pushed by GOP Gov. Jeff Landry on Friday, all but assuring Landry will sign it. The new plan creates a second Black-majority district as directed by a federal court, but even...
by David Nir
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on Fri Jan 19, 2024 at 01:05 PM PST
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by ProPublica
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on Sun Jan 21, 2024 at 02:59 PM PST
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A Washington law firm that tries to help Democrats win elections around the country has asked the liberal-controlled Wisconsin Supreme Court to throw out the battleground state's congressional maps, ...
by Associated Press
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on Wed Jan 17, 2024 at 02:24 PM PST
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A federal judge has imposed new legislative districts in North Dakota after Republican lawmakers refused to comply with an order to fix maps that the court previously found had discriminated against Native American voters. On Monday, U.S. District...
by Stephen Wolf
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on Tue Jan 09, 2024 at 11:26 AM PST
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A federal judge on Wednesday accepted new Georgia congressional and legislative voting districts that protect Republican partisan advantages, saying the creation of new majority-Black voting districts fixed illegal minority vote dilution that led him...
by Associated Press
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on Thu Dec 28, 2023 at 10:29 AM PST
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It’s Festivus in Wisconsin, my friends! The Festivus Pole (Wisconsin-made, with a very high strength-to-weight ratio) sits in display on the first-floor balcony level of the Capitol rotunda, offering grievance-airing via text to all and sundry. Well,...
by AnnieJo
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on Sat Dec 23, 2023 at 12:25 PM PST
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A top North Dakota Republican said there would be "no way" for lawmakers to craft new legislative districts by a court-imposed Friday deadline, marking the third time this year that a GOP-led state has ignored a court order to draw maps that comply...
by Stephen Wolf
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on Tue Dec 19, 2023 at 09:34 AM PST
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Redistricting never ends—and neither does our commitment to bringing you the most up-to-date data for every congressional district in the nation. With new maps now enacted in Alabama and North Carolina, Daily Kos Elections is pleased to publish updates...
by David Nir
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on Wed Dec 13, 2023 at 03:27 PM PST
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