Chief Financial Officer Jimmy Patronis said he doesn’t live in Florida’s 1st Congressional District because of partisan gerrymandering. But that insinuation upset Joel Rudman, a former state lawmaker who faces Patronis in a Special Election to represent the district in Congress. Patronis made the remark at a debate for candidates running in the Special Election to succeed former U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz in Congress. The Panama City Republican has faced criticism from opponents because he does not live in the Pensacola-centered district, but Patronis said his residency should not be...

COLUMBUS, Oh. — Governor Mike DeWine (R-Ohio) is taking a stand against a Democrat-led proposal on the ballot in his state this November that would amend the state’s constitution, supposedly aimed at “ending gerrymandering” in the Buckeye State. The only problem, DeWine said in a Wednesday press conference, is that it won’t. The amendment in question would move the ability to draw state voting districts from the current Ohio Redistricting Commission to a new body called the “Citizens Redistricting Commission.” If passed, the amendment would create the CRC, comprised of...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine is adamantly opposed to the anti-gerrymandering constitutional amendment that will be on the November ballot, saying he plans to create another proposal that voters should "trust." "This constitutional ballot issue, if passed, would result in districts that surprise and disappoint the voters who live in those very districts," the governor said in a news conference Wednesday morning. This is a developing story and will be updated. He claims that the amendment proposed by the nonpartisan group Citizens Not Politicians, a coalition of about...

A proposed anti-gerrymandering amendment in Ohio that would remove politicians from the redistricting process in favor of a citizens commission has gathered enough signatures to proceed to voters on the November ballot. The Ohio Secretary of State’s Office certified 535,005 signatures for the Citizens Not Politicians ballot initiative that would create an independent redistricting commission and replace the Ohio Redistricting Commission made up entirely of elected officials.

The fight for the Democratic seat in South Carolina’s 1st Congressional District has become just that more competitive following a Supreme Court decision in favor of gerrymandering. The ruling, which benefits the GOP considerably more, will disregard the voices of 30,000 Black voters in the district. Once a competitive bipartisan area, the district has been represented by GOP Rep. Nancy Mace for the past four years. However, recent redistricting in the spring of 2024 has introduced more Republican voters while limiting the growth of the district’s Black voting population, which...

Since 2021, Victoria Reid could leave her Millcreek home and in 45 minutes walk through Utah’s four congressional districts that touch every corner of the state. She would walk by neighbors who were in the same district as people who live in Logan or Blanding before returning to her own block where she shared a member of Congress representing Utahns living in St. George. It left her questioning how she could have more in common with those far-flung parts of the state than the people who live a few blocks...

Utah has ruled a lawsuit alleging state lawmakers illegally nullified an anti-gerrymandering initiative passed by voters in 2018 can move forward, filed Thursday show. Proposition 4 demanded that an independent redistricting commission be created that would draw district lines non-partisanly. But the Utah legislature then passed Senate Bill 200, which diminished the redistricting commission to nothing more than an advisory role and continued allowing lawmakers to draw their own districts.