Lancaster Online: Pennsylvania only a 'partly free democracy' according to report citing electoral laws, gerrymandering

Pennsylvania only a 'partly free democracy' according to report citing electoral laws, gerrymandering

Pennsylvania cannot be considered a fully functioning democracy, according to a new report. It's among at least a dozen states that, if they were nations, would rank as "a deeply flawed, partly free democracy," according to Andrew Reynolds, a political science professor at the University of North Carolina and an adviser to the Electoral Integrity Project, or EIP, a joint effort of Harvard University and the University of Sydney.

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