Latest Redistricting News
Ohio officials approve language saying anti-gerrymandering measure calls for the opposite
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio election officials have approved ballot language that will describe this fall’s Issue 1, a redistricting measure, as requiring gerrymandering when the proposal is intended to do the opposite. The Republican-controlled Ohio Ballot Board approved the...
Ohio Supreme Court clears ballot language saying anti-gerrymandering measure calls for the opposite
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The Ohio Supreme Court let stand late Monday ballot language that will describe this fall’s Issue 1 as requiring gerrymandering, when the proposal is intended to do the opposite. In a 4-3 ruling, the high court ordered two of eight disputed sections of the...
Fight to restore Black voters' strength could dismantle Florida's Fair Districts Amendment
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A coalition of voting rights groups is pointing to a voter-approved amendment to argue Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis violated the state constitution when he dismantled a Black congressional district, but if they lose the case, the Fair Districts Amendment itself...
Judges dismiss suit alleging Tennessee's political maps discriminate against communities of color
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A federal judicial panel has dismissed a lawsuit alleging that Tennessee's U.S. House maps and those for the state Senate amount to unconstitutional racial gerrymandering. “In sum, the complaint alleges facts that are consistent with a racial gerrymander,"...
Utah lawmakers want voters to give them the power to change ballot measures once they've passed
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah’s Republican-controlled Legislature will ask voters in November to relinquish some of their rights to lawmakers who want the ability to change state ballot measures after they’ve passed. Frustrated by a recent state Supreme Court ruling, lawmakers...
Ohio lawsuit seeks rewrite of redistricting ballot language dubbed 'biased, inaccurate, deceptive'
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The Ohio Supreme Court should step in on behalf of voters and order a rewrite of ballot language for a fall redistricting measure that “may be the most biased, inaccurate, deceptive, and unconstitutional" the state has ever seen, argues a lawsuit filed late Monday. ...
Backers of Ohio redistricting measure vow lawsuit over ballot language they call 'deceitful'
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Backers of a fall redistricting amendment in Ohio vowed swift legal action Friday, after the state ballot board approved language describing their proposal for voters that they decried as inaccurate, devious and manipulative. Over the objections of Citizens...
Appeals court: Separate, distinct minority groups can't join together to claim vote dilution
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Distinct minority groups cannot join together in coalitions to claim their votes are diluted in redistricting cases under the Voting Rights Act, a divided federal appeals court ruled Thursday, acknowledging that it was reversing years of its own precedent. At...
GOP Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine opposes fall ballot effort to replace troubled political mapmaking system
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Republican Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine said Wednesday that he will work to defeat a fall ballot issue aimed at remaking the state’s troubled political mapmaking system, and, if it passes, work with state lawmakers next year to advance a competing amendment based on the Iowa...
Voting group asks S. Carolina court to order redraw of US House districts that lean too Republican
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A group that works to protect and expand voting rights is asking South Carolina's highest court to order lawmakers to redraw the state's U.S. House districts because they lean too far Republican. South Carolina’s congressional map was upheld two months ago...
