Is Redistricting Depriving Women Of Their Voting Rights?
Reason magazine|April 2019

The Supreme Court weighs in.

Eric Boehm
Is Redistricting Depriving Women Of Their Voting Rights?

Since at least 2004, when the Supreme Court rejected a challenge to Pennsylvania’s congressional district boundaries because there was not a good enough way to quantify gerrymandering, the problem facing would-be reformers is this: How do you measure something that’s best understood by how it affects other things?

Last year, reformers thought they had solved that conundrum. Armed with a new metric called the “Efficiency Gap”—a formula that claims to demonstrate how gerrymandering makes congressional races less competitive—they asked the Supreme Court to toss out Wisconsin’s congressional map.

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