National A Nationwide Gerrymandering Thought Experiment What if we could gerrymander not only within states but gerrymander the states themselves? The answer isn't pretty.
North Carolina Two UNC Asheville Dorms Are Bisected by Gerrymandered District Boundaries Students in adjacent rooms in two residence halls are represented by different Congressmen, and will vote for different candidates in this election.
Congress Differences in Congressional District Population *Between* States: a Prologue The populations of different states' Congressional districts vary widely, but there are some interesting patterns in that variation.
North Carolina Selected Webliography (Is That a Word?) An abbreviated list of resources identified in a talk about improving public understanding of redistricting and gerrymandering.
North Carolina Important Redistricting Data is Missing from the NCGA Website Looking for the database used for the 2017 NC redistricting, which took into account the 2016 voting patterns? It's not on the General Assembly website, so we uploaded it.
Congress 44 Years of Redistricting Consequences in 14 Seconds This motion chart animation highlights the supercharged packing and cracking of U.S. Congressional districts in 2011, and the effects on election outcomes.
North Carolina Here Are Ten Insufficiencies In What the NCGA Has Provided for Judicial Redistricting Review As I write this post, less than three business days remain until the next meeting of the NCGA House Select Committee on Judicial Redistricting on September 27th. At that meeting, it seems that
North Carolina A Limerick About North Carolina Judicial Gerrymandering Not sure whether this will become a Friday tradition, but I felt compelled to post a limerick today about HB 717. I tweeted it this morning, but in limiting it to 140 non-formatted
North Carolina Some Figures About HB717's Proposed District Court Districts Not having seen any coverage of the details of HB717's proposed changes to the judicial district maps, I thought I would investigate and post some myself. The figures below the graphic relate to
North Carolina ...And Now for the HB717 Superior Court Districts: A Way to Examine (NC) Earlier today I posted about HB717's proposed District Court districts, and provided a map to better explore them. The Superior Courts have fewer judges, but try more significant cases – it seemed worthwhile to
North Carolina Here's How the HB717 District Court Districts Divide Communities (NC) If you live in one of North Carolina's eight most populous counties (and evidently about 40% of North Carolinians do), your county may soon be divided in a new way. All of these
North Carolina We Need More Information About the NCGA Proposed Maps Imagine that your child's school cafeteria had recurring problems last year with food poisoning and peanut contamination (despite a no-peanut-allergen requirement). Then imagine that the cafeteria announced that it was allowing public scrutiny
Update on Public Hearing Sites (NC) News flash! Less than an hour ago, Representative Lewis tweeted that a new, seventh site had been added, rendering my previous post obsolete. I don't know if I'll have time to revise the
North Carolina How NC's Public Hearing Sites for New Maps Relate to Overturned Districts [Updated 2:30 PM ET to include map showing distances.] Yesterday's announcement about the public hearing sites for comments on the proposed new maps raised a number of questions, not least of which
North Carolina Where the New NC Maps Provide No Suspense What is the opposite of 'suspenseful'? During this month of suspense about the maps in North Carolina, it's worth pointing out that there are some aspects that are a foregone conclusion. The maps
North Carolina The Surprise Gift in Yesterday's Redistricting Court Order The late-in-the-day court order rejecting the special election and setting the timeline for the map redraw was, understandably, big news. But none of the coverage that I've seen or searched has pointed out
North Carolina Where Are The Maps? (NC) So it's a 31-day sprint – new legislative maps for North Carolina are supposed to be enacted by one month from today. The 28 racially gerrymandered districts need to be fixed quickly, but you'd
North Carolina If I Live Next To an Overturned District, Will My District Be Redrawn? (NC) The short answer is: not necessarily. But the long answer is worth understanding. I've heard from multiple sources recently (some of them otherwise well-informed) that not only will the 28 cited districts have
North Carolina And now ... the Overturned NC House Districts Map Late yesterday, we learned of another hearing related to the upcoming redrawing of legislative maps and special election to follow. My previous post introduced an interactive map of the NC Senate districts that
North Carolina Exploring the Overturned NC Senate Districts Each time that a court has decided that a group of North Carolina's legislative districts were unconstitutionally racially gerrymandered, it makes for pretty big news – understandably. But each time, the coverage fails to
meta Introducing ... districks! It's July of 2017, and redistricting lurks as a gigantic issue at the national, state, and local level – but there also lurks a gigantic gap in the coverage. Articles get written, TV and
