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Dr. Lee Ann Banaszak, the head of the Department of Political Science at Penn State and a member of the Pennsylvania Redistricting Advisory Council in 2021, joins Take Note.

The commission charged with redrawing Pennsylvania’s House and Senate maps has backtracked on a provision of a major “prison gerrymandering” decision it made last month.

Reactions from county leaders to a recent decision by the commission in charge of redrawing Pennsylvania’s state legislative districts to count prison inmates in their home districts, not where they’re incarcerated, are divided along partisan lines.

This article is part of a yearlong reporting project focused on redistricting and gerrymandering in Pennsylvania. It is made possible by the support of…

This article is part of a yearlong reporting project focused on redistricting and gerrymandering in Pennsylvania. It is made possible by the support of…

Every year, the Governor of Pennsylvania and the General Assembly have to agree on budget. But this year, lawmakers are also tackling the impact of the…

The U.S. Census Bureau said Friday that it will get redistricting data to the states by the end of September, not the end of March as originally planned,…

A proposed amendment to Pennsylvania’s Constitution that would change how Supreme Court and appeals court judges are elected could have been on the state…

This Take Note is from the Democracy Works podcast.We’ll hear about Gerrymandering and the people fighting to take the politics out of drawing districts.…

Currently, Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court justices and appeals court judges run for election and retention in statewide races. But, under a…