GOP Fails Again to Stop Independent Redistricting in Michigan. July 8, 2020. Editor's Note: This article. originally appeared. in The Fulcrum and has been republished on IVN with permission from the publisher.…
Michigan Voted to End Partisan Gerrymandering; Are Partisan Primaries Next? February 12, 2019.…
Michigan's Capital May Be Denied Right to Decide Its Own Elections. July 29, 2021. The Lansing City Council agreed in July to put a question on the November ballot that would make the switch to ranked choice voting.…
UPDATE: Republican Insiders Sue to Take Redistricting Back from Michigan Voters. August 5, 2019.…
Smith”, scholars at Wayne State University launched a 12-year research project comparing the operation of Michigan’s state legislature before and after term limits were enacted. I was the principal investigator on that project.…
Yet, in a recent interview with Newsy, Michigan US Rep.…
This time. the case is out of Michigan. , where a lower court ordered 34 legislative and congressional districts to be redrawn because the court found that the districts were drawn explicitly for the purpose of giving Republicans an advantage.…
The Postal Service is warning the two biggest Midwest presidential battlegrounds, Pennsylvania and Michigan, that much of their election mail won't get delivered on time because the states' absentee ballot deadlines are too tight.…
Slay the Dragon. , Barak Goodman and Chris Durrance’s stunning documentary on the fight against partisan gerrymandering in Michigan and Wisconsin. It played before a full house at Betaworks Studios in lower Manhattan.…
Wisconsin is one of three states — with neighboring Michigan across Lake Michigan to the east, and Pennsylvania, further east touching the shores of Lake Erie — that defied predictions, polls and past patterns and delivered a combined 46 electoral votes to…