How gerrymandered is your district?

[WMS]

In Texas, precincts can not span districts.  In the1990's Frostrocity hundreds of precincts were sliced by district boundaries, roughly doubling the number in Harris County, resulting in $millions in extra election expenses.

They split precincts? Bad, bad, Texas Democrats...

One of the challenges to the state senate plan was that the combination of district lines had created numerous precincts with a handful of voters, such that you could figure out how individuals had voted.

In one case, a small town that had been a single election district, was split into 10 precincts as the CD boundaries criss-crossed the area.  The reason for doing so was to include an apartment complex in one of the CDs which had been torn down between the time of the census and the election.

In a Democrat primary held under the new lines, in one CD several precincts were left out (they voted with other CDs) and others were erroneously included.  The election was extremely close and ended up in court where voters were required to reveal who they had voted for (one 80-year-old voter said, "I'm going to stay right here till they lock me up.  I've worked all my life, and I don't have many days left.").

That is atrocious! I don't think Texas Dems have much ground to criticize the Reps' redistricting due to stuff like this...not that I'm happy with what DeLay did either, but still...

It goes back to the fundamental statistical problem with compact districts and a party that is highly concentrated in urban areas. To achieve an effective use of political gerrymandering, Democrats have to create more contorted districts splitting communities of interest. Its not that they are desirous of more atrocious districts, it's just the geographic arrangement of their likely voters.

Interesting bit of information. That's what they get for driving away their populist and moderate voters in the small towns and rural areas.

[Dave from Michigan]

how do you post one of these maps?

[Cashcow]

how do you post one of these maps?

My old district... at least, I think it used to cover West Bloomfield.

[Dave from Michigan]

how do you post one of these maps?

My old district... at least, I think it used to cover West Bloomfield.

This district doesn't include West Bloomfield thats district 9 now.  West Bloomfield may have been in 11 before redisticting.  West Bloomfield is right over and  below where it says Oakland on the map.  Although the map you posted is the one i live in!  This map is sort of gerrymandered
anything south and east of Westland is very democratic and Livonia, Canton and Plymouth city is 50/50  Plymouth and Northville city/twp.  are the only +55% republican parts of Wayne county.  The reason this district is republican is because of the western part of Oakland county is in it which votes almost 55%-60%  republican

[Dave from Michigan]

Cashcow,  district 11 is now represented by Thaddeus McCotter, district 9 is now Joe Knollenberg's district They cut out some western oakland county of Knollenberg's district to make another republican district for McCotter, so the republicans could have a 9-6 majority in the state

[Cashcow]

Ah, I see. Thanks.