Next WWNVD Meeting – Maps Status and What’s Next for 2022 A lot is changing this month! If you have been with us for our WWNVD project for Fair Maps, come join us this Thursday from 7-8:15PM over Zoom to hear what’s next. If you’re just joining us and you’d like to learn more about […]
US Supreme Court Issues Decision on Wisconsin Maps Wednesday, March 23 – The US Supreme Court decides to throw our Wisconsin’s legislative maps – just three weeks before signature-collecting starts. Read the decision here. It was not too long ago that the maps were approved due to meeting the “least change” requirement that the Wisconsin […]
Fairer Maps, Not Fair Maps By Irene Bugge On March 3, the Wisconsin Supreme Court adopted the redistricting maps submitted by Governor Tony Evers. Local fair maps volunteers with Western Wisconsin for Nonpartisan Voting Districts and the League of Women Voters of St. Croix Valley celebrated the Court’s decision. They agreed with the Governor’s assessment that the maps […]
New Fairer Maps On October 28 of last year, more than 200 people testified against the maps the Legislature was proposing. Only legislators favored the maps their party leaders wanted to pass. They said the maps had been drawn to protect incumbents–as if holding office should be a lifelong, unchallenged position. When the governor vetoed […]
Fairness, Least Change and Gerrylaundering By Annemarie McClellan I served with eight other Wisconsinites on the People’s Map Commission. Governor Evers asked the commission to create legislative and congressional maps that would be without partisan bias or advantage, while holding true to traditional redistricting criteria. We fulfilled those obligations. The Princeton Gerrymandering Project gave our […]
2/3/2022: WWNVD Meeting Resources Thank you to everyone who joined us for the WWNVD meeting! If you’d like to join us for future meetings, make sure to register here. Here’s everything you may have missed from the last meeting: Slides for the meeting are here. Actions and Invitations Interested in joining WIMAP (WI Map Assessment […]
Can You Gerrymander Your Party to Power? Have you wondered how gerrymandering is actually done? Here’s a fun opportunity to gerrymander for yourself and get insights on how the experts do it for WI. Find the full piece here.
Fair Maps Activist Virtual Training As we move forward with the fight to end gerrymandering in Wisconsin, we want to make sure we have the right tools to do so. This Saturday, Feb. 5, the Wisconsin Fair Maps Coalition is providing virtual training on strategies and building our power. Materials will be provided. Register here.
Refuse to be Left Out in the Cold By Doug Margolis On a frigid Friday lunch hour last week citizens braved the cold to hold signs and wave to drivers along main streets in River Falls, Eau Claire, and 14 other communities, demanding the Wisconsin Supreme Court end gerrymandering and give us fair district maps. […]
Supreme Court hears oral arguments in redistricting case – Wisconsin Examiner This past week, the Supreme Court heard arguments about redistricting in Wisconsin. This is the kind of necessary action needed for Fair Maps in Wisconsin. This past Friday, we were one of 16 rallies across WI to let the WI Supreme Court know that […]
Mapped Out Episode 7 Our favorite podcast, “Mapped Out” has another episode! After the decision by the Wisconsin Supreme Court, “Mapped Out” discusses the “least-change” approach to redistricting. Listen to the full podcast here.
Wisconsin State Journal reports: State Supreme Court sides with GOP proposal for ‘least-change’ approach to redistricting “In a 4-3 ruling Tuesday, the Wisconsin Supreme Court agreed with Republicans that the state’s political maps for the next decade be drawn with minimal changes to the existing boundaries, increasing the likelihood of a sustained GOP legislative majority […]
Evers Vetoes Wisconsin Redistricting Maps – Seehafer News “Each person gets a vote and each vote counts the same, and that’s where gerrymandering goes wrong.” Our very own Bob Maline explained to Seehafer News what exactly we can do as Wisconsinites to continue the efforts to end gerrymandering in Wisconsin. For more information and the […]
Retired Math Professor Gives a Bad Grade to the GOP’s Maps By: Maureen Ash Don Leake is a retired math professor from UW-River Falls. He is not impressed with the new redistricting maps that the Republicans in the state legislature have introduced. “What bothers me is that our legislators seem to believe these maps are about […]
Speaker Robin Vos Agrees with Us For more information, check out our project to end gerrymandering. If you’d like to support us, donate to our cause here.
Here & Now Summarizes Fair Maps On the September 24, 2021 episode of Here & Now on PBS, reporter Zac Schultz describes what exactly “Fair Maps” are. The piece on Fair Maps begins at 6:53. For the full piece and access to the transcript, go here.
Sound the Alarm for Fair Maps Hey folks! Thank you for the continued support for PCGRO and our efforts to put an end to gerrymandering in Wisconsin. Looking ahead, we hope to put more pressure on legislators and help more Wisconsin voices be heard. Due to the urgent deadline for getting Fair Maps in Wisconsin […]
Federal court allows redistricting case brought by Democrats to move forward This past week, the federal courts agreed to move forward with a redistricting case. “A panel of three federal judges on Thursday rejected a request from Republicans to dismiss redistricting litigation filed by Democrats, allowing a federal case to continue as lawmakers work to […]
Fair Maps Update By: Irene Bugge Polk County became a hub of activism for fair maps in 2021. This spring with a nonpartisan redistricting referendum on the April ballot, grassroots volunteers put up 150 purple and white “End Gerrymandering” lawn signs, mailed 2,000 vote-yes-for-the-referendum post cards, left messages or spoke directly to 700 voters and […]
Lawsuit challenges Wisconsin’s political maps a day afer release of 2020 Census data Now that the Census data for this year is out, we need to make sure that the maps are drawn fairly. A group of voters has now set out to challenge Wisconsin’s political maps only a day after the Census data came […]