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Special Session 11/3-11/2021. All 3 maps passed to Governor for signing. (State Senate, State House, U.S. Representatives/Congress)
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Let your Republican legislator know that we see them protecting their seats, not protecting their people’s representation.
Let your Democratic legislator know that we expect them to commit to a future redistricting process that is transparent and values districts that reflects Gorgia Georgia citizens. Georgia is a swing state and should have competitive districts. Georgia is racially diverse.
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Actually, we don’t know if it’s legal. The Supreme Court said that partisan gerrymandering is outside of their purview.
The maps do not measure favorably with the fairness benchmarks of the Princeton Gerrymandering Project (PGP). It simply does not include partisan balance or competitiveness in the criteria. Refer to “Proposed Map Comparisons”
It is possible to draw fair maps. Here are 5 fair congressional maps on Daves Redistricting: Citizen-Map-1, Citizen-Map-2, Citizen Map-3, Citizen-Map-4, Citizen-Map-5 . These maps receive a PGP grade of “A”.
Congressional map yields Republicans 64% seat majority in a state with under a 50% vote.
Partisan gerrymandering is evident. Partisan vote share should follow seat share (i.e. more votes for a party yields more seats). But we have seen a pattern of diverging vote share compared to seat share. Refer to “20-Year History of Redistricting”. The same trends hold for congress: between 2010-2012 the Republicans lost 2.4% of state vote share yet gained 1 congressional seat. Between 2010-2020 Republican vote share has declined by 49.2% yet the proposed congressional map would add 1 Republican seat.
The number of competitive districts are reduced, yet Georgia is a swing state. Refer to “Proposed Map Comparisons”
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Data, Data, Data: All the numbers you need are provided on the Fair Districts GA Legislator Resource page. Of particular interest on this page is the Princeton Gerrymandering Project benchmark data and comparisons, and the vote-share vs seat-share analysis over 20 years (showing gerrymandering in outcomes).
In the attachments below you may will find the attached “Myths vs Facts” to offer some clarification over some prior contentious claims.
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