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2017 Tulsa election: Proposition 5: Mayor picks redistricting panel
The fifth of the seven charter change propositions on the City of Tulsa November 14, 2017, ballot would change the makeup and responsibilities of the Election District Commission, which redraws the City Council district lines after each Federal decennial census. A yes vote on Proposition No. 5 would expand the...
Jim Bridenstine endorses Amanda Teegarden, Joe Newhouse in state senate runoffs
Oklahomans vote on August 23, 2016, a runoff in a small number of races where no candidate received a majority of the vote in the June primary. U. S. Representative Jim Bridenstine has made endorsements in two of those Republican runoff primaries for open State Senate seats in Tulsa County....
Oklahoma historical congressional district maps
I've been watching politics for a very long time, going back to my childhood, so it's funny to observe the media's new-found concern about gerrymandering -- the practice of manipulating election district boundaries to benefit one party over another. The media's concern seems to have emerged with the growing dominance...
Map monsters: "Gerrymandering 101"
"Zombie," a blogger known for documenting through photographs the nauseating obscenity of festivals and protests in the Bay Area, is documenting a political and geographical form of obscenity: The gerrymander, the deliberate drawing of district lines for political advantage. The first of two recent posts -- Gerrymandering 101 -- explains...
Rethinking redistricting
There's an effort in Indiana to "rethink redistricting". Here are the principles they espouse for fair redistricting: Keep communities of interest together Create more compact and geographically uniform districts Reduce voters' confusion about who represents them by following already existing political boundaries such as county and township lines Not use...
Gerrymandering's threat to democracy
Rich Lowry had a great piece a few days back on National Review Online about how congressional gerrymandering is eroding democracy by making more and more congressional races uncompetitive. With the help of district lines sometimes so tortured that they look like works of abstract expressionism, incumbents have increased their...
Those districts belong to us
I've been thinking about redistricting reform lately. (Redistricting fascinates me because it combines three of my favorite subjects -- politics, number-crunching, and maps!) With term limits kicking in, and the possibility of a change in control in the state legislature, this may be the optimal time to reform the system...
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