From today’s Mobile Register:
Sunday, June 26, 2005
By STEVEN L. TAYLOR
Special to the Register
Every time I teach my American government students about elections and electoral districts, I tell them that one of the things that they can count on is that with districting comes lawsuits.
There aren’t many hard laws of social science, but the relationship between the drawing of legislative districts and lawsuits may well be one.
The entire piece is here
I hope you also teach the students that the US is the last country on earth (at least to my knowledge) where redistricting is left in the hands of politicians, instead of independent nonpartisan commissions or other bodies.
Comment by Matthew Shugart — Monday, June 27, 2005 @ 12:37 pm