Electoral Boundaries Delimitation Using DistrictBuilder
1. Prepared for
International Seminar on Electoral Boundaries Delimitation
Instituto Federal Electoral
Mexico City, November 2012
PPR-México
Plataforma Pública de Redistritación México
Por
Micah Altman, MIT, Brookings Institución
Michael McDonald, GMU, Brookings Institución
Alejandro Trelles, Universito of Pittsburgh
Eric Magar, ITAM
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2. Where has DistrictBuilder been used?
Used in 10 states
More than 1000
legal plans
created by the
public
Thousands of
public participants
Millions of
viewers
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3. How has DistrictBuilder been used?
For Transparency:
Dissemination
Public understanding
Evaluation/comparison
For Education:
Staff training
Classroom teaching
Student competitions
For Participation:
Integrated into official decision process
Non-partisan public organizations
For Election Administration:
Internal collaboration/analysis sharing
Support for commission
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4. What principles govern the project?
All redistricting plans should include
sufficient information such that the public
can verify, reproduce, and evaluate a plan.
Open Source
Open Data
Open Algorithms
See: Principles for Transparency and Public Participation in
Redistricting
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http://www.brookings.edu/opinions/2010/0617_redistricting_statement.a
6. (Also Award Winning)
Named one of the top ten political
innovations of 2011
by Politico
Winner of 2012 data innovation
award, for data used for social
impact,
by Strata
Winner of 2012 award for outstanding
software development,
by American Political Science
Association
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7. Thanks to Our Sponsors
Funded in part by
The Sloan Foundation
Joyce Foundation
Amazon Corporation
Judy Ford Watson Center at Christopher Newport Univ.
Engineering and implementation services by:
Azavea
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This work. “The Public Mapping Project”, by Micah Altman (http://redistricting.info) is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/us/ or send a letter to Creative Commons, 171 Second Street, Suite 300, San Francisco, California, 94105, USA.
This work. “The Public Mapping Project”, by Micah Altman (http://redistricting.info) is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/us/ or send a letter to Creative Commons, 171 Second Street, Suite 300, San Francisco, California, 94105, USA.