In the race for Governor in Virginia the republican candidate, Ed Gillespie, is working to suppress votes in order to win. He is doing this by ex-felon disenfranchisement,  gerrymandering, and promoting restrictive voter ID laws.

The supreme court has finally agreed to hear a case in extreme gerrymandering in Wisconsin. “Wisconsin’s Assembly,” the map’s challengers note, “. . . bears no resemblance to its evenly split electorate. In 2012, Republicans won a supermajority of sixty seats (out of ninety-nine) while losing the statewide vote. In 2014 and 2016, Republicans extended their advantage to sixty-three and sixty-four seats, respectively, even though the statewide vote remained nearly tied.”