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Maps are not legislation. And transparency would be publishing all of the attributes that are used in the drawing of the maps before they are released to the public.
For instance, is voter registration data used? Election results from previous elections?
Tell the public how you decided to draw each line. That’s transparency.
And if keeping communities of interest together is a priority, why are several US congressional districts drawn in such a way where suburban dwellers are drawn into rural districts?
Why does someone in Greenwood have the same representative as someone who lives in New Albany? Greenfield and Winchester? Avon and Logansport?
Joe B., good questions and comments. Citizens can draw their own maps with the tool at this website:
https://districtr.org/
Thanks, Mike.
That it takes 20 minutes for someone like me to get something in the ballpark doesn’t speak well for the need for consultants.
Then again, I’m not trying to win elections and ensure a Republican supermajority. I’m trying to give the Indianapolis area representative representation (more than 1 representative) and draw concise districts … even though people are fleeing much of Indiana for the bigger cities.
https://districtr.org/plan/37420
Even Sen. Bray’s own district is an example. He mostly represents exurban/rural parts of Morgan, Johnson, and Putnam Counties…with a slice of densely-populated suburban Greenwood thrown into his district’s northeast corner. Based on Indiana’s population, his district should have about 135,000 residents; probably more than a quarter of them live in that little slice of territory that is in White River Township (Center Grove) Johnson County and folks there have very little in common with his constitutents in Greencastle in another corner of his district.
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Because I live in that part of Greenwood represented by Tennessee Trey of New Albany in the US House and Sen. Bray in the State Senate (and which is in a State House district that somehow gerrymanders Edinburgh with Mooresville’s outskirts), I fully support those questions asked by Joe B.