Gerrymandering: A New Era of Re-districting Battles [Podcast]

Sep 18, 2025

In Sanford’s Policy 360 podcast professors Jonathan Mattingly (Mathematics) and Asher Hildebrand (Public Policy) consider increasing pressures on some states to redraw district voting lines now even though they are traditionally redrawn every 10 years in response to the census.

Read the full article and listen to the podcast at Sanford School of Public Policy.

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