Because they can't win if they don't cheat.The stakes for this year’s midterms could hardly be higher. And yet, the results almost certainly won’t come close to accurately reflecting the will of voters.
According to most analyses, Democrats will need to win the nationwide congressional vote by a substantial margin just to win a bare majority of House seats. That’s in large part because of extreme Republican gerrymanders in several big states. The Brennan Center’s interactive map, created with our partners at Development Seed, shows the effect of those gerrymanders on election results.
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[I]f both parties win 50 percent of the vote, Republicans will still wind up with many more seats.
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Fortunately, there’s a solution: reforming the redistricting process to strengthen rules on fairness, or even taking map-drawing out of the hands of partisan lawmakers altogether. In fact, initiatives to do just that are on the ballot in several states this fall. By using fair maps, we can ensure that election results reflect what voters actually want.
Brennan Center
The redrawing of district boundaries every 10 years is designed to ensure that Congress and state legislatures are representative. But all too often, redistricting is not used by elected officials to safeguard electoral fairness, but to manipulate boundaries and stack the deck in favor of a political party or incumbent candidates.
This is called gerrymandering and it is a big problem in America.
Brennan Center
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