...This year was no different, except in one very important way: gerrymandered election districts drawn by a Redistricting Board dominated by Republicans and ruled unconstitutional by our Supreme Court produced a state senate that passed SB...
This editorial first appeared in the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner: The Alaska Redistricting Board should not be taking a "wait and see" approach to redrawing election districts.That is, don't wait to see how the U.S...
...The high court earlier this year ordered the redistricting board to redraw the map, with greater deference to Alaska...discriminatory.Michael White, an attorney for the redistricting board, said Friday that he was still analyzing the decision...
...was one roller coaster of a story that set the stage for others.The Alaska Supreme Court directed the Alaska Redistricting Board to produce a map that drew Haines and part of Juneau into the same district, setting up a potential incumbent-versus-incumbent...
JUNEAU - The Alaska Redistricting Board wants the state's highest court to reconsider its decision that requires Alaska's political boundaries to be redrawn.Attorneys...
...candidates over Democratic candidates. Since Alaska's Redistricting Board had 4 of 5 seats appointed by the Governor, the...population. Rather than debate whether the Alaska Redistricting Board engaged in 'gerrymandering' or 'simple demographics...
...legislative district.The Alaska Redistricting board last week dramatically redrew...community," she said. The Redistricting Board's action took Haines, and...Juneau access) road."Redistricting board members said the Alaska Supreme...
A divided Alaska Supreme Court has reversed course and approved the Alaska Redistricting Board's attempt to create an election district in Southeast that with have a strong Native presence.The practical effect of that...
The Alaska Redistricting Board on Friday submitted the redistricting plan it adopted with the...in racial minorities ability to exercise their voting power.Redistricting Board Executive Director Taylor Bickford said the plan does that...
...for a temporary restraining order were scheduled for Thursday in U.S. District Court in Anchorage.The Alaska Redistricting Board asked DOJ to review the plan after the state Supreme Court last month signed off on it for the 2012 elections...
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