Wisconsin picks new legislative maps that would end years of GOP gerrymandering
Wisconsin picks new legislative maps that would end years of GOP gerrymandering
- February 16, 2024
- Bernie Grofman, poli sci, ProPublica, Feb. 16, 2024
The court hired two academic consultants to analyze the proposals and issue a report evaluating the plans for their conformity to standard districting requirements, including compactness and equal population distribution. … The four remaining proposals greenlit by the consultants were submitted by the plaintiffs, [Gov. Tony] Evers’ office, a group of Democratic senators, and a team of mathematicians and data scientists. The consultants — from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh and the University of California, Irvine — determined that those four plans were “similar on most criteria.”
For the full story, please visit https://www.propublica.org/article/new-wisconsin-district-map-gop-gerrymander-elections.
-----
Would you like to get more involved with the social sciences? Email us at communications@socsci.uci.edu to connect.
Share on:
Related News Items
- Ready for takeoff
- You might be surprised by how little impact a vice presidential pick has on voters
- Wisconsin taxpayers to pay half the cost of redistricting consultants hired by Supreme Court
- New Michigan House map remedies racial concerns that led to redraw, special master says
- Redistricting experts submit $128K bill for review of Wisconsin legislative maps
connect with us