Tying the distribution of electoral votes for president to the outcome of individual congressional districts would take all the problems with redistricting and import that partisan dysfunction into the presidential election.

Republican control of the lower chamber could extend well past the 113th Congress, thanks in part to the once-a-decade process of redistricting.

What happened in Texas’ redistricting process and how the Supreme Court may rule.

Last week the United State Census Bureau released a new data file giving states new opportunities to correct the decades-old problem of prison-based gerrymandering. 

Prison-based gerrymandering occurs when the thousands of people incarcerated in state and federal prisons are counted by the Census as residents of the districts where they are incarcerated rather than residents of their home communities, where most inmates will return upon release.