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"The term gerrymandering refers to the practice of drawing electoral district lines to favor one political party, individual, or constituency over another. When used in a rhetorical manner by opponents of a particular district map, the term has a negative connotation but does not necessarily address the legality of a challenged map. In this context, proponents may counter that the map has not been gerrymandered but has been drawn to conform with overlapping, potentially conflicting redistricting standards." (BallotPedia - Gerrymandering, 8/22/2024)
"Redistricting is the process of enacting new district boundaries for elected offices, particularly for offices in the U.S. House of Representatives and state legislatures. This article chronicles the 2020 redistricting cycle in New York." (BallotPedia - Redistricting in New York after the 2020 census, 8/27/2024)
"Gerrymandering, in U.S. politics, the practice of drawing the boundaries of electoral districts in a way that gives one political party an unfair advantage over its rivals (political or partisan gerrymandering) or that dilutes the voting power of members of ethnic or linguistic minority groups (racial gerrymandering)." (Britannica, 8/22/2024)
https://www.c-span.org/video/?19107-1/history-congressional-redistricting
"October 26, 2023
Author:
Emily Molfino, James Whitehorne, Michael Hawes, and Sallie Keller
This document is a reference guide to the data the Census Bureau provides to states and other jurisdictions for their redistricting efforts. Note that this guide focuses on the redistricting process and not the apportionment process. Additionally, this guide focuses on the time following the mid-1960s when a series of U.S. Supreme Court decisions fundamentally changed the redistricting process. These changes to the redistricting process imposed new data needs on the states and led to the enactment of P.L. 94-171." (U.S. Census Bureau, 8/27/2024)
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Redistricting Data—A Primer and History (2.38MB)
https://www.census.gov/library/publications/2023/decennial/redistricting-primer-history.html
"August 12, 2021
The U.S. Census Bureau provides the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico with population counts to use in their redrawing of congressional and state legislative district boundaries—a process known as 'redistricting.'
While the states are responsible for legislative redistricting, the Census Bureau provides population counts for the geographic areas the states need.
As a supplement to the America Counts: Stories Behind the Numbers article titled, 'Improved Race and Ethnicity Measures Reveal U.S. Population is Much More Multiracial,' Tables 1-5 provide race and ethnicity statistics for the nation (50 states and the District of Columbia) from the 2020 Census Redistricting Data (P.L. 94-171)." (U.S. Census Bureau, 8/27/2024)
https://www.census.gov/data/tables/2020/dec/2020-redistricting-supplementary-tables.html
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