CA-21

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Monday December 17, 2012 · 11:22 PM PST

2012/12/17 · 23:22

For those of you not familiar with CA-21 it is a notoriously hard call because of its tendency to have very small voter turnout. Only 116,283 people voted for Congressional Representative on Nov. 6, 2012 in CA-21. What in the heck happened????

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Friday July 15, 2011 · 1:03 PM PDT

2011/07/15 · 13:03

Ahemm!!! It looks like redistmas once again.

The working drafts have been posted by the California Citizen's Redistricting Commission. HERE There are multiple proposals for the Congressional and Assembly districts for both the Bay Area and LA/SoCal. The GIS files are HERE.

California 1st Draft is up

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Friday June 10, 2011 · 11:01 AM PDT

2011/06/10 · 11:01

The 1st draft of the maps for California are up. The Congressional, Assembly, State Senate & Board of Equalization maps are available here ->
http://wedrawthelines.ca.gov/...

MALDEF plan(s)

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Friday May 27, 2011 · 2:40 PM PDT

2011/05/27 · 14:40

I just noticed that the redistricting plans (Congress, Assembly, State Senate) that MALDEF is floating for California are here => http://redistrictingpartners.com/...

added 5/29/2011
News coverage from the Bakersfield Californian here -> http://www.bakersfield.com/...

Local level effects of the Cal-VRA

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Wednesday May 11, 2011 · 4:34 PM PDT

2011/05/11 · 16:34

So, electioneering in here California is about to become much more interesting at the local level. As a result of the California Voting Rights Act and litigation (see Sanchez v. The City of Modesto and Gomez v. Hanford Joint Union School District) at the state level the legislative bodies of cities and school districts that had previously been elected at large are being forced in to district/ward elections. Some of the school districts that are involved have electorates that are 50%-60%-70% Hispanic and no Hispanic trustees.
Also in looking at the data I see that CA-22 can with relative ease be drawn in to a 55+% Hispanic district. Map to follow.

Redistricting/GIS

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Friday May 06, 2011 · 12:49 PM PDT

2011/05/06 · 12:49

I'm curious if anybody else has actual GIS (Geographic Information Systems) experience?

One of the things that have been bugging me is that all the plans that are being worked on by DKE/SSP'ers are based at the VTD (precinct) level. I would argue that in truth the VTDs are an out-and-out FICTION.

"voting district (VTD) - The generic name for a geographic entity - such as an election district, precinct, or ward - established by state, local, and tribal governments for the purpose of conducting elections. Some reviewing officials adjusted the boundaries of the voting districts (VTDs) they submitted to conform to census block boundaries for data presentation purposes, and therefore a VTD for which Census 2000 provides data might not exactly represent the legal entity; the U.S. Census Bureau refers to such VTDs as pseudo-voting districts (pseudo-VTDs). Such VTDs, as well as any territory for which state officials did not specify a status, are identified by a "P" in the VTD indicator field of the PL data file."

In California, and, I am inclined to believe, most other states. The geographic unit that is going to get (being) used to move population around between districts are census blocks. The chair of the redistricting commission said as much when it was stated that the commission's goal was to balance the congressional seats down to one person!

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