America’s complex system of electoral votes turns out to be a stellar tool for math teachers to use to demonstrate ratios and datasets, as well as concepts of fairness.

Teachers can use a histogram, a kind of graph used to illustrate how data is distributed ... means each vote counts more. Topic 4: Gerrymandering Each state is divided into districts; residents ...

For America’s math teachers, the system represents a gold mine for real-life lessons on ratios, statistics and data. And by ...

Johnson attributes her colleagues' politics in part to gerrymandering ... Bart Gordon of Tennessee marked up a chart, brainstorming ways to reduce the federal deficit. According to Kent Syler ...

The Cook PVI illustrates how voters’ natural geographical sorting from election to election, much more than redistricting and gerrymandering ... and just two of the 195 seats greater than R+5. The ...

Just as importantly, there are dangerously few competitive seats remaining. Thanks to a 2019 Supreme Court decision that ...

"Restrictions have historically been passed in ways that make it harder for political independents and Democratic ...

Republican state lawmakers in charge of the once-a-decade process pored over detailed electoral and demographic data. This allowed them to pick with precision which voters they’d like to have in each ...

Yet in a race this close, partisan gerrymandering will be central to ... today’s sophisticated map-making software and voluminous voter data have proved all but impossible to overcome ...

The Supreme Court took up a thorny legal dispute from Louisiana involving the state's effort to draw a congressional district ...