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Author Archives: NoahKennedy
Gerrymandering in Florida: "Fun", but None of Your Business
How is it possible that Florida, where a citizen-driven state constitutional amendment solemnly prohibits gerrymandering, ended up with what an expert statistician has called the most partisanly gerrymandered map he had every seen? Read the Orlando Sentinel article, and note … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
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Everyone's concerned, but "Hands-Off" is not in the discussion
Is the public at large knowledgeable of and concerned about Gerrymandering? A quick scan of polling in the past year would indicate there is both broad understanding and broad concern about what it is doing to our country, and that … Continue reading
Posted in california, north carolina, OPRA, Politics of Redistricting
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Keystone State Gerrymandering
Really funny example I ran across this morning: take a look at this Keystone Politics post from last week. The writer lifts Pennsylvania’s State Senator Daylin Leach‘s Facebook page entry on a real-world experiment Leach made about redistricting. (I confirmed with … Continue reading
Listen to me on KGO Radio this evening with Pat Thurston
Hands-Off Redistricting gets a spot on San Francisco-based KGO AM 810 tonight at 6pm Pacific time. Join me with host Pat Thurston for a discussion of gerrymandering and what to do about it. Call in and give me flack or add … Continue reading
LLoyd Doggett and the Winnebago District
In a recent post I related the four primary tools in the gerrymanderer’s toolkit, as defined in an informative Propublica piece: Kidnapping, Cracking, Packing and Hijacking. Astonishingly, all four of these tactics have been employed against a single congressman, Lloyd … Continue reading
Posted in minority rights, Politics of Redistricting, Texas, Uncategorized
Tagged Doggett, gerrymandering, Hands-Off Redistricting
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What can I do? Here's something that takes 10 minutes!
Gerrymandering is obviously an obstacle to getting reasonable representative government. It’s going to take a long time and a lot of work to fix, and the special interests will not go quietly. It can be daunting to even think about … Continue reading
Posted in Ohio, Politics of Redistricting
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Gerrymandering: Best Practices
Though admittedly not a very recent article, Redistricting: A Devil’s Dictionary by Olga Pierce, Jeff Larson and Lois Beckett in Propublica gives an interesting summary of the insiders’ terms for tactics for manipulating Congressional District boundaries for partisan purposes. One gets the impression that anyone … Continue reading
Posted in Politics of Redistricting, Propublica
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Is Gerrymandering getting worse?
As I was doing research for a future post, I came across this project website by Jeffrey B. Lewis, Brandon DeVine, Lincoln Pitcher, and Kenneth C. Martis, researchers at UCLA, that is a great source for historical Congressional District boundaries. What … Continue reading
Posted in Politics of Redistricting, Texas
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Rolling Stone on the Republicans
There’s a searing article in Rolling Stone this week by Tim Dickinson, detailing the long list of Republican party efforts to frustrate the will of the American voter, featuring (you guessed it) their extensive, well-funded hi-tech efforts to rig redistricting. … Continue reading
Posted in Politics of Redistricting, Rolling Stone, Uncategorized
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Brian Olson's approach to Hands-Off Redistricting
I ended my last post with a reference to Brian Olson and the work he is doing to test and implement Hands-Off Redistricting algorithms of various kinds, and the success he seems to be having with his most recent work. … Continue reading
Posted in Boundary mathematics, Brian Olson, california, north carolina, OPRA
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