posted Jun 7, 2012, 2:22 PM by Michael McDonald
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Common Cause/Indiana has launched Draw Marion County, which allows Marion County voters to give direct input into the
redistricting process for the City-County Council by drawing their own
version of district maps using our DistrictBuilder software. |
posted Oct 22, 2011, 11:00 AM by Micah Altman
To foster awareness of the new opportunities available to become involved in the redistricting process, the Center for Electoral Politics at Fordham University and the Public Mapping Project have launched the “2012 New York Redistricting Project.” The initiative is generously funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. See http://redistrictny.org |
posted Sep 22, 2011, 12:56 PM by Michael McDonald
The Minnesota Supreme Court has issued an order that they will consider redistricting plans generated by the Public Mapping software, which is being used in the Minnesota redistricting competition. To our knowledge, this is the first time a court has stated they will consider public plans. |
posted Sep 19, 2011, 9:01 AM by Michael McDonald
Draw Our Minnesota is an effort to improve the redistricting process in
Minnesota by ensuring that the process is fair, transparent and that
there is meaningful citizen input. Past redistricting attempts in
Minnesota have been driven by partisan influences and lacked active
citizen participation in the process. |
posted Aug 10, 2011, 8:02 AM by Michael McDonald
posted Aug 6, 2011, 10:04 AM by Michael McDonald
Our software developer partner, Azavea, has launched a redistricting competition for Philadelphia's City Council districts. Competition partners include Newsworks, University of Pennsylvania Project for Civic Engagement, Philadelphia Daily News, and Philly.com.
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posted Jul 19, 2011, 8:27 AM by Michael McDonald
The Ohio Redistricting Competition is now underway. State legislative plans are to be submitted for judging by August 21 and congressional plans are to be submitted by September 11. For more information, visit the Ohio Redistricting Competition. |
posted Jul 15, 2011, 2:36 PM by Michael McDonald
Dr. McDonald will discuss the Public Mapping Project at a Brookings Institution forum at 10am on Monday, July 18th. C-SPAN is live-broadcasting the forum. |
posted Jul 11, 2011, 1:13 PM by Michael McDonald
The Sloan Foundation has awarded the Public Mapping Project a grant of $380K to provide full public access to a New York version of District Builder. To further engage the public, the grant will support five redistricting public forums around the state, to be run by Prof. Costas Panagopolous at Fordham University. The grant will also support the development of integrated user support and internationalization and localization features, such a content delivered in multiple languages and the ability to simultaneously support statewide and local redistricting.
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posted Jun 20, 2011, 11:35 AM by Michael McDonald
We are pleased to announce that we have issued Amazon Machine Instances for Massachusetts, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and South Carolina.
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