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All About Redistricting -- How the public can engage

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AS OF SEPTEMBER 10, 2015, PROFESSOR LEVITT IS ON LEAVE FOR NATIONAL SERVICE. ALL UPDATES AFTER SEPTEMBER 10, 2015, ARE COURTESY OF SUNY BUFFALO LAW SCHOOL FELLOW JEFF WICE. Can the public engage? In each state or local jurisdiction, different entities. Are officially in charge of drawing district maps. But no matter where you are, there are steps you can take to influence the process. State law requires consideration of " communities of interest. Demand and attend hearings. That may be helpful as well.

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Crowdsourcing & Collaborative Knowledge Creation | Program on Information Science

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Skip to main content. Program on Information Science. Crowdsourcing and Collaborative Knowledge Creation. Current Areas of Research. Crowdsourcing and Collaborative Knowledge Creation. Data Management, Big Data, and Digital Stewardship. Information Policy and Privacy. Rapid Fabrication, Spaces, and the Information Lifecycle. Scholarly Communications, Measurement and Evaluation. Currently, the program is leading the. As part of this project we have developed. When is Information Purely Public?

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Redistricting - United States Elections Project

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US Elections Project Blog. DistrictBuilder and the Public Mapping Project. During the recent round of United States redistricting public participation and transparency in the process increased many times over, in part through the DistrictBuilder software development and the companion Public Mapping Project. Is open-source web-based collaborative redistricting software. The DistrictBuilder source-code. Is housed on GitHub, and contributions are welcome. And pro-bono work by Azavea. Used DistrictBuilder an...

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HARVARD ELECTION DATA ARCHIVE

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Skip to main content. HARVARD ELECTION DATA ARCHIVE. Sharing and Improving Election Data. About the Harvard Election Data Archive. This archive contains data on election results, voting behavior, and electoral politics, with particular focus on the United States. The core data for the archive are state, county and district level election returns for all recent state and federal elections in the United States. DrawCongress.org (Columbia Law School). Center for Geographic Analysis (Harvard University).

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News — The McCourtney Institute for Democracy

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College of the Liberal Arts. Search Penn State Web. Search Penn State People. Search Penn State Accounts. Search Penn State Departments. Call for Nominations for 2017 Brown Democracy Medal. Nov 02, 2016. Seeking Nominations for the 2017 Laurence and Lynne Brown Democracy Medal. Innovations in Democratic Theory. Award Review Process for 2017. To assure full consideration, please send all nomination letters before January 3, 2017 to democracyinst@psu.edu. Novelty. The innovation is precisely that a gen...

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Second Open Economics International Workshop | Open Economics

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An Open Knowledge Foundation Site. About the Working Group. First Open Economics Workshop. Second Open Economics Workshop. Automated Game Play Datasets. Data Policies of Economic Journals. Second Open Economics International Workshop. Second Open Economics International Workshop. 11-12 June, 2013. MIT Sloan School of Management, U.S. About 35 participants, invite-only. The second workshop will build upon the first event in December 2012. Engage with key stakeholder groups including academics, funding age...

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All About Redistricting -- Ideas for Reform

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AS OF SEPTEMBER 10, 2015, PROFESSOR LEVITT IS ON LEAVE FOR NATIONAL SERVICE. ALL UPDATES AFTER SEPTEMBER 10, 2015, ARE COURTESY OF SUNY BUFFALO LAW SCHOOL FELLOW JEFF WICE. Justin Levitt, A Citizen's Guide to Redistricting. The Reform Institute, Beyond Party Lines: Principles for Redistricting Reform. Campaign Legal Center, The Shape of Representative Democracy. FairVote, Redistricting Reform in the States: A 50-State Analysis. Americans for Redistricting Reform. The time to think about these ideas is now.

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All About Redistricting -- Other Resources

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AS OF SEPTEMBER 10, 2015, PROFESSOR LEVITT IS ON LEAVE FOR NATIONAL SERVICE. ALL UPDATES AFTER SEPTEMBER 10, 2015, ARE COURTESY OF SUNY BUFFALO LAW SCHOOL FELLOW JEFF WICE. Software for drawing maps. NY Times' American Community Survey engine. Center for Urban Research: New York City. And other major city. Brennan Center Congressional District political ratings. Daily Kos Elections - Redistricting Resources. Harvard Election Data Archive. Public Mapping Project - Data page. NCSL, Redistricting Law 2010.

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All About Redistricting -- Who draws the lines

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AS OF SEPTEMBER 10, 2015, PROFESSOR LEVITT IS ON LEAVE FOR NATIONAL SERVICE. ALL UPDATES AFTER SEPTEMBER 10, 2015, ARE COURTESY OF SUNY BUFFALO LAW SCHOOL FELLOW JEFF WICE. Who draws the lines? Different people are in charge of drawing the district lines in different states. In most states, the state legislature. In most of these states, district lines pass just like regular legislation, with a majority vote in each legislative chamber, subject to a veto by the Governor. Connecticut. Are also invited to ...