Jacob Soboroff visits with Chris Swain, director of the University of Southern California's Electronic Arts Game Innovation Lab. Swain is the creator of the cutting-edge Redistricting Game, which lets users play mapmaker in order to understand the good, the bad and the ugly of allowing elected officials draw the borders of areas which they or their fellow party members represent. For more: http://www.whytuesday.org

Proposition 11 - Redistricting. Constitutional Amendment and Statute. Prop 11 Non-partisan info produced by videovoter.org cgs.org LA36.org.

Pros & Cons presented by the Oakland League of Women Voters. Proposition 11 Redistricting. Shall the authority for establishing state office boundaries be changed from elected representatives to a commission comprised of Democrats, Republicans, and representatives of neither party selected from the registered voter pool in a multilevel process?

The redistricting issue for Jefferson Parish schools is covered.

Redistricting. Initiative Constitutional Amendment and Statute

On June 29, 2006, the American Constitution Society, one of the nation's largest progressive legal organizations, held its annual Supreme Court review at the National Press Club. The forum was breifly interrupted when attorney Tom Goldstein announced the Supreme Court had ruled against the Bush administration on the use of military tribunals for those held at the U.S. prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Paul Smith, an attorney who has argued a number of cases before the Supreme Court, discussed the Court's recent decision to allow Tom DeLay's mid-term redistricting in Texas that was done to elect more Republicans to stand.

Members of the volunteer parent redistricting committee spoke to the Board of Education after the Monday, Nov. 26th question and answer meeting. They shared their concerns and thoughts on the redistricting process, views on the proposed closing of East Fayette Elementary and other related subjects.

Former Assembly Speaker Bob Hertzberg, Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce Leader David Fleming and Controller Laura Chick tried to convince the L.A. City Council to support Proposition 11, the California ballot measure creating an independent Redistricting Commission for the State Legislature to end gerrymandering.

The content of this video is an attempt to get a message out to the voters of Phoenix to vote "no" to the bill on the ballot regarding redistricting Phoenix districts. There are many reasons to oppose this bill, which is given in the video, but I will briefly describe why voters should not vote "yes" on this bill. * The proposal was put together too quickly. * There is no information as to how they are going to finance the new changes. For example, how are they going to afford aligned curriculum for the 116,000 kids in this one massive district. * Maintenance and transportation services will be the first people to negatively impacted if voters help pass this bill. * Special programs will be negatively affected and possibly be closed based on location within the district and lack of funding. * How will this impact students in the future? * With No Child Left Behind, how will this affect schools that are already failing and will this impact the district as a whole because of the literature found in No Child Left Behind? * Will there be school closures? * Whole communities/neighborhoods will lose local control because there will no longer be a board for each district due to the restructuring into one massive district. Rather there will be 5 people covering the overly-populated 116,000 student district, which translates into lessened communication between the community and the members of the board. * What will happen with the property tax distribution in relation to schools who tax themselves more so their kids have more resources? * All of the teacher associations and administrators oppose this redistricting plan. * There is no research supporting their claims that unified districts serve students better than non-unified districts.

Gerry Hebert, the Executive Director of the Campaign Legal Center in Washington, DC, discusses redistricting and reapportionment at the National Conference of State Legislatures annual convention in Boston (August 6, 2007)

An informational short video explaining why redistricting is not beneficial to our districts.

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is behind a new ballot initiative that would drastically change who voters pick as their elected leaders.

League of Women Voters, California Common Cause and AARP California rally outside a closed-door meeting held by Senator Don Perata and various special interests in Sacramento.

This is a short clip about the outcome of the redistricting from Mark Birnbaum and Jim Schembeck's "The Big Buy." This segment has Jim Hightower discussing what DeLay did. While not in this clip, the documentary later discussed how these votes changed important outcomes in the US Congress. The challenge Hightower mentioned eventually lost. The districts are currently still that way. View more clips and/or get the movie: http://tomdelaymovie.com/ Hightower's website: http://www.jimhightower.com

Republicans in the House Privileges and Elections committee kill the final independent redistricting measure before the General Assembly, Sen. Creigh Deeds' SJR 352.

Two parts to this video. Sam Sweat covers the high points of the map that was approved by the Board of Education 12/17/07. East Fayette is to remain open for one more year, Highgrove and Whitewater remain at Peeples, Timberlake moves from Peeples to Braelinn and more. For those who don't choose to watch the two videos for details, please visit www.FayetteFrontPage.com to read the story.

Commissioner Herb Frady recently introduced a map he drew which would redraw Fayette County, Georgia's voting lines. The state's Reapportionment Office made one change to the map he initiated. The issue has sparked debate throughout the county and has revived the issue of moving to district voting. Currently the county has "at-large" voting which allows all citizens to vote for all five County Commissioners. Commissioner Peter Pfeifer outlined his objections at the Monday morning Special Called Meeting (8/20/07). Commissioner Eric Maxwell reacts.

He Sings in His Sleep!

Proposal to end gerrymandering of Congressional districts

After months of silence, Fayette's parents offered opinions about elementary school redistricting.

Jim Edgar, former GOP Illinois Governor, stopped by my Campaigns and Elections class yesterday. Luckily, I got to ask him a question about Illinois redistricting.

Commissioner Herb Frady recently introduced a map he drew which would redraw Fayette County, Georgia's voting lines. The state's Reapportionment Office made one change to the map he initiated. The issue has sparked debate throughout the county and has revived the issue of moving to district voting. Currently the county has "at-large" voting which allows all citizens to vote for all five County Commissioners. Alice Jones was one of four residents to attend the special called meeting (held during normal business hours, Monday, August 20th).

(2 of 8) Members of the volunteer parent redistricting committee spoke to the Board of Education after the Monday, Nov. 26th question and answer meeting. They shared their concerns and thoughts on the redistricting process, views on the proposed closing of East Fayette Elementary and other related subjects

Linda Curtis interviews Austin people about redistricting and the presidential election at Walmart in Bastrop, TX

Jeff Wice, legislative attorney in New York, speaks on legislative redistricting at the National Conference of State Legislatures in Boston (August 6, 2007).