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What’s the Best Way to Deal With Gerrymandering?

Dan Eckam
Posted by Dan Eckam Posted on July 4, 2019 0 Comments on What’s the Best Way to Deal With Gerrymandering?
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Many people feel disappointed by the Rucho v. Common Cause decision, handed down last week by the Supreme Court. I don’t blame them. The Supreme Court recognized that partisan gerrymandering is, in their own words, “incompatible with democratic principles”, yet…

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Multimember District Representation in the US and in the States

Dan Eckam
Posted by Dan Eckam Posted on April 20, 2016
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Americans are used to electing our representatives from single-member districts. Since the 1970s, all members of the US House of Representatives have been elected this way. But in many cases prior to that, states elected some or all of their federal…

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