Redistricting

2020 was a memorable year for many reasons (the least of which include bitcoin scams, murder hornets, and the hope of Columbus, Ohio becoming Flavortown), but for us here at Democracy’s Database, the record-high turnout of voters in the 2020 general election was a major highlight. It’s long been the…

How have apportionment and redistricting changed the congressional landscape? The new maps suggest a very small net gain for Democrats, but with re-apportionment still shy of even net proportional. Moreover, an approximate national balance obscures offsetting maps in a handful of states that are more unfair. Details The table below…

Now that New York’s redistricting process is complete and its new district lines are final, I have made the difficult decision not to continue my campaign for Congress. Tompkins County, and my hometown of Ithaca, have been drawn into New York’s 19th congressional district, which spans 11 counties extending from Tompkins through the Catskills and east across the Hudson Valley to the Massachusetts border. …

Citizen Voting Age Population (CVAP) is the total population aged 18 and over and also a citizen. The estimates come from the U.S. Census Bureau’s most recent ACS data release. Thanks to VEST, the data were disaggregated from Block Group to Block for use in DistrictBuilder mapping and analysis. Why would you use CVAP for redistricting? There…

We’re excited to launch new enhancements to support redistricting competitions and map submissions for Organization pages on DistrictBuilder. Thanks to an award from the U.S. Census Bureau Open Data for Good Challenge, we were able to extend DistrictBuilder to include a submit button and provide other metadata on plans for…

Elitist Entitled and Always Offended Adult Adolescents Want Helicopter Courts to Fix Their Fairness Problem. When you were growing up and going to school, without a doubt you saw it. Spoiled, unhappy, fit throwing kids who relied on their helicopter doting parents to fix all their problems. The eye rolling…

Farmington has a well-documented history of discrimination and violence against Native residents, and voter suppression is part of the continued struggle. — By Jordan Oglesby and Aidan Graybill I n 1974 three Navajo men — Herman Dodge Benally, John Earl Harvey, and David Ignacio — were brutally murdered on the outskirts of Farmington, New Mexico by three white teenagers. In response to the murders, many advocacy organizations — including the University of New Mexico Kiva Club, the American…

This article originally appeared on my website, the Buckeye Beacon. If you enjoy it, please consider subscribing at https://www.thebuckeyebeacon.com. If you have been following Ohio’s redistricting process even remotely closely, you will surely have seen that it has been nothing short of dramatic, lengthy, and, quite frankly, gross. As a…

The City Commission convened on March 10 to finalize redistricting, or what some are calling a land-grabbing marathon. By Michael Feuling. — District 2 is getting mutilated with impunity, Downtown and Brickell in particular. The proposed slicing of Coconut Grove, also part of District 2, however, brought dozens of residents to City Hall and more than one thousand people had signed a petition demanding that the historic neighborhood be kept intact. …