New York's Nassau County agreed on Thursday to redraw its voting map after a lawsuit claimed its political boundaries disenfranchised residents of color. Once approved by the court, the county will ...
The second lawsuit, filed last February by the Brooklyn-based advocacy group New York Communities for Change, alleged racially polarized voting occurred in Nassau and the redistricting plan "dilutes ...
Second, activists can sue to get gerrymandered maps thrown out in court. This tactic was successful this cycle in states such as North Carolina, New York and Ohio.
New York’s latest U.S. House map, passed and signed into law Wednesday ... The new map is nothing like the run-the-table gerrymander that the Legislature tried to impose in 2022.
Called the state's electoral maps "rigged" and "wrong ... weaken Democratic gerrymanders in" states like New York, Illinois, and Nevada. While gerrymandering itself may be a bipartisan pastime ...
racial gerrymandering, and federal oversight. On Monday, New York and 19 other states filed an amicus brief supporting Louisiana and its map, while criticizing a push to change the federal Voting ...
Nearly halfway into the 2020s, the district map for the Nassau County ... by Democrats that its lines violate New York’s Voting Rights Act and anti-gerrymandering law. County Executive Bruce ...
The New York Legislature on Monday voted down a U.S. House map approved by the state ... since Democrats hope another gerrymandering cycle will help them seize the House Speaker’s gavel ...