Communication 09 How To draw Redistricting Plans That Will Stand Up In Court

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Here is where census geography gets confusing: because the poli is so varied, and even two states with the same political geogra to report their population counts based on the same set of polit someone from another state talking about the population counts t reason you dont understand what theyre talking about is simply redistricting geography that is different from yours. To bring some order out of this chaos, the Census Bureau has inv a.Precinct, Ward, Election District = VTD What many states call precincts, but some call wards, election d use to tabulate election results, the Census Bureau calls Voting b.City, Town, Village, Unorganized Territory, Other = MCD General purpose local governmental units within a county, such a boroughs, and unorganized territory, are called Minor Civil Divi c.Place In some states, incorporated governmental units are called Place d.County VTDs and MCDs do not cross county boundaries. Where a city cross the portion on either side of the boundary gets a different MCD So, ask around to find out what kinds of census units are used t congressional districts in your state, and youll get a better i look like. C.Measuring Population Equality How does a court measure the degree of population equality in a give you an example. Lets say we have a state with a populatio entitled to elect ten representatives in Congress. (That is not work with.) The average, or ideal, district population would b draws a redistricting plan that has five districts with a popula a population of 110,000. The deviations of the districts woul or minus ten percent and plus ten percent. The average deviati or ten percent. And the overall range would be 20,000, or 20 statisticians call the overall range to measure the population they have usually referred to it by other names, such as maximu overall deviation. 11