Category Archives: redistricting
“Missouri GOP puts political fairness at bottom of redistricting priorities”
AP:
Republican senators rolled out a plan Tuesday to ask Missouri voters to undo key parts of a nationally unique redistricting model that directs a demographer to draw new legislative districts with “partisan fairness” and “competitiveness” as top criteria.The… Continue reading
“Redistricting power at stake in 2020 legislative elections”
AP report, with a rundown of the major states in play.
“Republicans ‘got greedy’ in drawing Pennsylvania congressional maps, new documents say”
The Philadelphia Inquirer reports on documents from the trove released by Thomas Hofeller’s daughter:
“GOP gerrymandering got greedy the last time and bad political climate caused it to unravel,” one of the state-by-state analysis documents in the files said of… Continue reading
“Nevada group to seek signatures for redistricting initiative”
The initiative to institute a commission in Nevada was amended and refiled to address a trial judge’s concerns about the ballot description.
Census hearing on hard-to-count communities at same time as voting systems security hearing
At the same time as the Thursday hearing on voting system security that I’d mentioned, House Oversight will be holding a hearing on “Reaching Hard-to-Count Communities in the 2020 Census.” The witness list is still TBD, as… Continue reading
“Florida becomes one of last states to form Census committee”
The AP reports on Florida’s … exceedingly recent efforts to raise census awareness. In this context, I’m not sure whether “it’s never too late” is quite accurate.
“Where do inmates fall in Census count? NJ moves to end ‘prison gerrymandering'”
A bill has passed the state Senate, and is working
its way through the state Assembly.
If it gets signed into law, that would make New Jersey the seventh state to
change where incarcerated individuals are counted for representational… Continue reading
Techniques for Grassroots Campaign Volunteer Mobilization
Joe Spaulding, lead field strategist for the Voters Not Politicians Michigan independent redistricting campaign that got 440,000 signatures in 4 months without paying any signature gatherers, reveals some follicular (and data-supported) tactics for fighting diminishing returns out in canvass-land. Thread… Continue reading
“Deceased GOP Strategist’s Daughter Makes Files Public That Republicans Wanted Sealed”
As Hansi notes,
Stephanie Hofeller just dropped the first full tranch of
documents on The Hofeller Files.
Enjoy.
Redistricting Arizona
The Arizona Daily Star goes quite deep on the past, present, and future of Arizona’s Independent Redistricting Commission.
“Urban America likely to gain clout after Census”
Reid Wilson, in The Hill, discusses the population shift to cities.
For those following census issues closely, one of the
impacts of the implementation of differential privacy may blunt that apparent move
a bit on the margins. As a… Continue reading
“Census will mean new ways for politicians to keep power despite earning fewer votes”
Bill Leonard weighs in on new opportunities for partisan gerrymandering after the Census.
“Why Texas doesn’t want to count all its Texans”
Larry Wilson contrasts California’s approach to Census outreach with the approach in Texas.