In the end, New York state’s Independent Redistricting Commission failed to come up with a set of new proposed maps for congressional and state Senate and Assembly districts before the deadline, throwing the process to lawmakers. We get analysis from Richard Briffault of Columbia Law School, an expert on redistricting, gerrymandering, voting rights and election law.
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After a fall semester marked by some campus shutdowns and other localized COVID-19 problems, the State University of New York system is establishing a...
Next year, New York state will have a new legislative map — and a new way of drawing it. Using the results of the...