Measuring partisan gerrymandering to pave the way for #FairMaps
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We are excited to be a part of Campaign Legal Center’s redistricting work this cycle!
Follow @CampaignLegal to stay up to date as new maps are drawn.
#2020Census data is coming this week. Voting districts will be finalized based on this data, and these districts will be in place for the next 10 years.
Voters deserve #FairMaps. That's why CLC is relaunching PlanScore.org. [Thread🧵]
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.@Chris_T_Kenny and @michalmigurski wrote a great API for @PlanScore in R. Enables you to easily extract a variety of data on new districting plans, including local government plans being developed now across the country. christophertkenny.com/PlanSc…
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In today’s @washingtonpost @monkeycageblog, @hezaproject, @michalmigurski, and I show that in the most recent redistricting cycle commissions generally drew fairer and more competitive maps than politicians.
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Now that redistricting is nearly done, @hezaproject, @michalmigurski, and I have a new paper forthcoming in Publius: The Journal of Federalism that provides an overview of the Congressional & state legislative districts that were drawn around the country. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.…
New work in nationwide redistricting and partisan advantage tracking from the @IPPSR team at Michigan State University!
Which party do new redistricting maps in each state favor against neutral benchmarks? Find out in our new @IPPSR Partisan Advantage Tracker, led by Jon Eguia
ippsr.msu.edu/partisan-advan…
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Nice use of @PlanScore showing the NY maps to be almost perfectly fair. This is unalloyed good news for the state senate, though not for Congress where a fair NY map fails to offset Republican gerrymanders elsewhere.
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This is not acceptable. Bipartisan, independent commissions are the key to upholding our democratic institutions #redistricting
#NEW: GOP lawmakers have introduced a joint resolution to abolish the Michigan Independent Citizens Redistricting Commission. tinyurl.com/bstfcbbz
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This is @PlanScore's evaluation of the plaintiffs' proposed NY congressional map: It's about as biased toward Republicans as the enacted plan was toward Democrats.
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View the #PlanScore analysis of the #Kansas congressional map at the heart of this case here: planscore.campaignlegal.org/…
Florida’s new Congressional map shows strong pro-Republican bias across all of our metrics.
planscore.campaignlegal.org/…
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Gerrymandering: A Balanced Discussion about Unbalanced Maps. 12:45PM on 4.18. Register at hlsdemocracy.live/register. Check out who's coming ⬇️
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Good @boltsmag article on 2022's state Supreme Court elections, which could lead to courts that green-light Republican gerrymanders in NC and OH later this decade. boltsmag.org/supreme-court-e…
Two notably well-balanced US Congressional district plans have entered the chat.
North Carolina’s court-ordered 13 seats with an efficiency gap of just 1.4%: planscore.campaignlegal.org/…
Pennsylvania’s 17 seats with a tiny 1.8% EG: planscore.campaignlegal.org/…
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210 years ago today, the map that gave us the term gerrymandering became law (though the famous cartoon wouldn’t be published until March 26 - they didn’t have @davesredist or @PlanScore back then)
#OTD in #history, 1812, #Massachusetts Gov. Elbridge Gerry signed into law a senate map that sought to advantage his party. The drawing of one district was so byzantine, it resembled a salamander. Critics combined Gerry & salamander to create the popular portmanteau: gerrymander.
ALT This political cartoon was published in the Boston Gazette that depicted the gerrymandered district as a “new species of Monster.”
Excellent group effort going on in redistricting this year, everyone building on each other's selfless work in pursuit of fair maps
This is very cool: In an expert report for a new lawsuit challenging MI's legislative maps brought by the League of Women Voters, @cwarshaw cites data calculated by @DKElections drive.google.com/file/d/1yzW…
Nick succinctly reviews findings from a paper evaluating US House plans in the current cycle with PlanScore: More fair on partisanship, commissions are good, competitiveness has dropped in GA, IN & TX, and black voters are losing representation in AL & SC
planscore.campaignlegal.org/…
Check out this awesome new paper by @hezaproject @michalmigurski @cwarshaw. It's the most rigorous study of the current redistricting cycle -- covering congressional AND state legislative maps.
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.…
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Pennsylvania Legislative Reapportionment Commission (@PaLegis) released their final approved state legislative plans last Friday - find their partisan skew analyzed across several metrics on @PlanScore's library:
planscore.campaignlegal.org/…
The Economist offers a quick partisan review of new U.S. House maps as they stand so far with a word from @ProfNickStephan
economist.com/united-states/…
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The Alabama plaintiffs made use of @vest_team data. The Virginia special masters used VEST data. The NC court calls for gerrymandering measures found on @PlanScore, which uses VEST data. Really proud to see our behind-the-scenes work over the past 4 years result in fair maps
Our plan library for the current redistricting cycle is now up-to-date with South Carolina, New Mexico, Hawaii, and more. Things are moving quickly this cycle with filing and other deadlines fast approaching for 2022.
South Carolina General Assembly (@SCHouse) passed the final congressional and state senate plan signed by Gov. McMaster, find them analyzed across various partisan skew metrics on @PlanScore's library page: planscore.campaignlegal.org/…
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.@FiveThirtyEight's description of PA's redistricting process reads like the opening crawl of a Star Wars movie, so...
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