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Maptitude for Redistricting

Public Access Redistricting — Citizen Involvement in Redistricting in 2020

The 2020 redistricting round will exhibit a marked change in public access from previous decades, both in terms of the existence and proliferation of public hearings and in terms of technology to facilitate public input for suggested maps.

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Maptitude Online Redistricting (MORe) was developed so that the public can view, create, and submit fair congressional plans and fair state legislative plans. A few examples of how MORe has been used:

  • Arizona deployed Maptitude Online Redistricting so that the public could submit congressional and state legislative plans.
  • Los Angeles deployed MORe for the redistricting of their 15 council member districts.
  • Idaho deployed Maptitude Online Redistricting so that the public could submit congressional and state legislative plans. Anyone could access the Idaho online redistricting site and review the numerous plans that were submitted via Maptitude Online Redistricting.
  • Fairfax, Virginia successfully redistricted using Maptitude Online Redistricting. According to a Fairfax spokesperson, "The software...makes it easy to develop plans in our tight timeframe." The chairman expressed that "This isn't going to take as long as we thought." Caliper's web-based redistricting software was used to provide redistricting capabilities to the general public as well as to state legislators and county commissioners.
  • Maryland's Emergency Commission on Sixth Congressional District Gerrymandering used Maptitude Online Redistricting to provide citizens the opportunity to help redraw the 6th district

Redistricting Public Access case Studies

The advances in redistricting technology have led to an unprecedented demand for online public and educational public access to Maptitude for Redistricting. State and local governments have initiated public online redistricting sites such as in Idaho and powered by Maptitude Online redistricting.

Idaho Redistricting: The Idaho Legislative Services Office, the non-partisan staff for the 2011 Idaho Redistricting Commission, used Maptitude Online for Redistricting, the online version of the software the Commission used to redraw the congressional and legislative district boundaries.

"The State of Idaho is proud of its history of providing unequaled public access to its political redistricting process, for which it received a national award after the 2001 redistricting cycle. We hope to encourage active participation by the public in the redistricting process by providing this online software that can be used by anyone with a computer and internet connection."

The public was invited to begin using the Maptitude program to draw redistricting maps to submit to the Commission.

Minnesota Redistricting: As the 2001 Minnesota legislative session got underway, each chamber formed redistricting-related committees. As redistricting bills were introduced during the 2001 Minnesota legislative session, maps of the proposed districts were made available on the Legislature's Subcommittee on Geographic Information Systems (GIS) website (which is now known as the Legislative Coordinating Commission's Geospatial Information Office).

Maptitude was the web-based software chosen to generate the various redistricting proposals of legislative staff, Governor's staff, and many local governments. Data provided by the U.S. Census Bureau from the 2000 Census included more detailed race and ethnicity categories than previous censuses, and also reported people listing multiple ethnicities. As described in the report, Use of Racial Data in Redistricting, this data was used by the Legislature's GIS office so that all 504 categories of racial and ethnic data were taken into consideration.

A Senate Counsel report, Public Access to Redistricting Data in Minnesota, details Minnesota's open records law and how the Minnesota Legislature made redistricting data available to the public. Additional descriptions of the Legislature's redistricting computer systems is detailed in the Minnesota Redistricting System Profile.

Public access redistricting with Maptitude for Redistricting

Public access redistricting with Maptitude for Redistricting

Maptitude for Redistricting provides solutions that support public access to redistricting:

  • Maptitude Online Redistricting
    • For public networks for citizens
    • Designed with safety and privacy in mind
    • Does not use Flash or Java
    • Proven to be a stable and reliable platform
  • Maptitude Web Plan Publisher
    • Publish your plans as interactive mapping applications on the Web
    • Users can locate their address on the map, pan and zoom, query the district assignments, and display tables of data from their browser
  • Low-cost PC versions Maptitude for Redistricting for libraries, city halls, and other public access points
  • Custom website development
    • Caliper has extensive experience creating sophisticated websites for a number of large government organizations including the U.S. Census Bureau, the U.S. Department of Transportation, the Small Business Administration, and several state legislatures.