United States | Congressional redistricting
Democrats have fared surprisingly well in Congress’s new maps
But the boundaries still favour Republicans
|Washington, DC
Editor’s note: On February 7th the Supreme Court reinstated a congressional map in Alabama that a lower court had ruled was biased against African-American voters. The story has been updated to reflect this decision.
This article appeared in the United States section of the print edition under the headline “Another round of election-rigging”
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