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States Have Completed 2022 Redistricting
Except in states with binding independent redistricting commissions, voters are left with districts that are less competitive and more gerrymandered and cities and counties that are split. “And, to many involved in efforts to replace gerrymanders with competitive districts, the vanishing number of truly contested House races indicated that whoever won, the voters lost.”
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Utahns Won’t Be Dismissed
On June 1, League of Women Voters Utah, Mormon Women for Ethical Government, and the seven individual plaintiffs in Utah’s gerrymandering lawsuit filed a response to the legislature’s motion to dismiss. Gerrymandering is an undemocratic practice that rigs the game so the powerful can lock in power for another decade, putting their own interests ahead…
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Extreme Gerrymanders
Utah is now infamous for our gerrymandering. This informative report demonstrates just how extreme Utah’s congressional map is: “The nonpartisan Campaign Legal Center estimates this new map is more skewed than 99% of the enacted redistricting plans it has analyzed over the past 50 years.” Utahns deserve better. Read more: https://issueone.org/articles/extreme-gerrymanders/
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How Can We Combat Gerrymandering?
In the previous installment of the blog series “Gerrymandering 101,” we discussed how gerrymandering makes it easier for a politician and members of their own party to win elections and hurts both voters and our democracy. But while the harms of gerrymandering cannot be ignored, it is possible combat gerrymandering and ensure that voters can…