Redistricting Reform

Whenever they can, parties influence the drawing of congressional and legislative district lines in a way that optimizes the party’s chances of winning and holding a majority of the seats representing those districts. But the people are beginning to reclaim citizen control of the redistricting process.

Websites

Common Cause

In America, elections are supposed to reflect the will of the people, not politicians. Common Cause promotes a process for drawing district boundaries that puts our communities, and not the needs of politicians, first.

Brennan Center

Redistricting can determine which lawmakers represent constituents’ interests and whose voices are heard. The Brennan Center is working to end gerrymandering and make the process independent, inclusive, and transparent.

FairVote

FairVote is a nonpartisan champion of electoral reforms. Its work on redistricting is based on the premise that the current process is used as a means to further political goals by drawing boundaries to protect incumbents and reduce competition, rather than to ensure equal voting power and fair representation.

League of Women Voters

The League of Women Voters believes congressional districts and government legislative bodies should be apportioned substantially on population. They oppose partisan and racial gerrymandering that strips rights away from voters.

Books

Fixing Elections: The Failure of America's Winner Take All Politics

Steven Hill

Articles

The Politics We Don’t See Matter as Much as Those We Do

Thomas B. Edsall

Partisan Gerrymandering and the Political Process: Effects on Roll-Call Voting and State Policies

Devin Caughey, Chris Tausanovitch, and Christopher Warshaw

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