[EL] Flaws in Politico and NY Times articles about gerrymandering

[Larry Levine]

Interesting observation? Twice in my experience the redistricting maps for the California legislature were done by entities other than the legislature – once by a court of master and once by the newly created commission. In each case the first elections conducted in the new districts produced the largest Democratic majorities in my 50+ years of involvement in CA government and politics. Both elections produced super majorities for the Democrats. Could it be that the give and take of the partisan atmosphere in the legislative arena had some moderating impact on the process? Anyone got a better answer?

Larry

 

From: law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu [mailto:law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu] On Behalf Of Kogan, Vladimir
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To: djohnson at ndcresearch.com; 'Rick Hasen'; law-election at uci.edu
Subject: Re: [EL] Flaws in Politico and NY Times articles about gerrymandering

 

The NYT analysis is also somewhat deceiving because it focuses only  on the congressional maps. As Eric McGhee and I showed <http://u.osu.edu/kogan.18/files/2014/08/govca-25eiqbe.pdf>  a few years ago, California’s commission-produced maps produced a substantive increase in competitive districts for the congressional plan, but not for either of the two state legislative plans.

 



 


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