Wisconsin Supreme Court's experts call Republican drawn map plans 'partisan gerrymanders'
Wisconsin Supreme Court's experts call Republican drawn map plans 'partisan gerrymanders'
- February 1, 2024
- Bernie Grofman, poli sci, Yahoo News (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel), Feb. 1, 2024
Two redistricting consultants hired by the Wisconsin Supreme Court to analyze proposals for new legislative boundaries in Wisconsin ruled out two plans submitted by Republican lawmakers and a conservative law firm and declared the remaining four submitted by liberal groups, university professors and Democrats "indistinguishable" from each other. … The consultants, Bernard Grofman of the University of California, Irvine and Jonathan Carvas of Carnegie Mellon University, told the justices they could draw a map for the court by taking one or all of the Democratic map plans and improve upon them.
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