Wednesday Nov. 15: at 6 p.m., at the State House (Room 35) the Redistricting Commission will hold a hearing on how Rhode Island counts prison inmates for redistricting purposes.
Our League's national headquarters has been a passionate and proactive force in spearheading the People Powered Fair Maps campaign, and their new blog series, "Redistricting Watch," is a great way to keep up-to-date on key issues in the redistrict
The Rhode Island Constitution requires that, along with abiding by the Voting Rights Act (which outlines equal racial population requirements as well as other guidelines determining what construes “fair representation” based on factors such as pol
This week, during a meeting with one of our partners, Common Cause Rhode Island, a question came up that was a bit of a head-scratcher for me, so I posed the question to Samyuktha Mahadevan, a Campaign Coordinator for the National League of Women
As the U.S. Census nears announcing its final numbers, the League will begin year 2 of working on the People Powered Fair Maps (PPFM) initiative, which works on fair and honest redistricting.
