Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Voters are heading to the polls for this year’s midterms, but the electoral maps are ...

Ruling gives Republicans advantage in U.S. redistricting fight Virginia voters approved pro-Democratic map in April Virginia measure is part of nationwide battle over redrawing electoral boundaries ...

WASHINGTON, April 29 (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday gutted a key provision of the Voting Rights Act - making it harder for minorities to challenge electoral maps as racially ...

The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. cautiously praised the hard-won Voting Rights Act of 1965 as a “great step forward” toward removing obstacles that kept Black Americans from voting. It was. But now, in ...

State legislators were expected to release the final set of electoral district maps for the House and Senate Tuesday, in anticipation of the special redistricting session, which gets underway ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The bare-knuckle, partisan mid-decade redistricting battles that have occurred across the country over the past year and a half ...

All eyes are now on this year’s midterm elections, when newly drawn congressional maps in several states could help decide which political party gets control of Congress. Florida lawmakers approved a ...