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Category Archives: Politics of Redistricting
From Idea to Advocacy
I am happy to accept Noah Kennedy’s invitation to contribute to his blog in spite of the fact that I have no credentials in math, cartography, or computer software. What I can offer readers is a passionate interest in seeing … Continue reading
Posted in Brennan Center, Politics of Redistricting, Roll Call
Tagged L, League of Women Voters
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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
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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Hands-Off Redistricting and Minority Voices
One of the most common responses I get to the idea of Hands-Off Redistricting is that – though people are uniformly disgusted with gerrymandering – they are concerned that automated approaches might lead to their own set of unintentional injustices. … Continue reading
A GIS analysis of Gerrymandering compared to OPRA
I ran across a very interesting blog post by a creative GIS specialist named Blake Harvey, on his Geo Ideas blog. In it, he proposed a formula for measuring gerrymandering, and he proposed this ranking for states based on his … Continue reading
Posted in Boundary mathematics, north carolina, Politics of Redistricting
Tagged Blake Harvey, district boundaries, OPRA
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North Carolina gerrymandering and the government shutdown
If you’re visual like me, and focused on the pernicious politics of gerrymandering as I am, you will be drawn to this map North Carolina’s eastern Congressional Districts: Google map scraped from www.govtrack.us, a great site for browsing
Posted in Politics of Redistricting
Tagged north carolina, Optimal Proximity, political reform, shutdown
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