After looking at gerrymandering through multiple lenses, there’s no doubt that this historical problem continues to be pervasive in our democracy. However, this doesn’t mean that there aren’t potential solutions Read More …

The topic of redistricting has a long history in the nation’s courts. From the structural questions and racial gerrymandering cases of the mid-to-late-20th-century to the more recent arguments surrounding partisan Read More …

You’ve probably seen the commercials or ads on social media proclaiming that it’s time for the 2020 census. Most people know what it is: a nation-wide count of everyone living Read More …

One reason that it’s so easy for redistricters to pack voters into effectively single-party districts is due to a phenomenon known as self-sorting. The idea of self-sorting can be examined Read More …

In Part 1 of this mini-series about ways to measure partisan gerrymandering, I looked at geometric methods. These methods use the shape and boundaries of districts to determine their level Read More …

As I talked about in the last post, gerrymandering got its name from people looking at a district and thinking it was shaped weird. While this isn’t the only way Read More …

As the modern world’s first representative democracy, the United States was a great experiment in which many new ideas were tested. The House of Representatives was formed as a means Read More …

It all started freshman year of high school when I had to find an application for a math project about statistical variance. After tumbling through a rabbit hole of articles Read More …