Last year, a three-judge panel selected Bernard Grofman, a professor of political science at the University of California, Irvine, as a “special master” to advise them on the complexities of resetting Virginia House districts that they had declared to be in violation of federal voting-rights protections. The boundaries, drawn up in 2011, had had reduced Democrats in the House of Delegates to a puny minority.


For the full story, please visit https://www.economist.com/democracy-in-america/2019/03/01/how-a-new-congressional-map-could-turn-virginias-house-blue.

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