2020 New York Redistricting

[ProgressiveModerate]

Looks like NY-26 is kept whole meaning no snake

[ProgressiveModerate]

So TL;DR, Tenney gets screwed.

NY-22 has replaced 24 as the Syracuse seat (now includes Ithaca) and 21 is merged with 22.

[Oryxslayer]

Looks like NY-26 is kept whole meaning no snake

Yes no Earmuffs.

https://twitter.com/BenJ_Rosenblatt/status/1487885796283715584?s=20&t=XODby3...

https://twitter.com/BenJ_Rosenblatt/status/1487886394475393029?s=20&t=XODby3...

[Sestak]

So the Staten-Manhattan thing is not happened - but they’re keeping the Biaggimander lmao

[Torie]

If the maps are even remotely like those that have been floated, it is going straight to the NYS Appellate Division of the Appellate Court. It will be interesting to find out how the Democrats will explain that their butt ugly facially obvious gerrymander does not "unduly" favor one party.
It will be even more interesting to read the court decision.

As Maloney (or whoever he got to write the memo) lucidly explained in the memo, the map was not drawn to favor one party - and in particular not to "unduly" favor one such party. Insofar as it favors any one party, such favoritism is "due."

The real rationale for drawing the districts he proposes is all about communities of interest. As with, for example, a district combining the lakefront communities, such as the district he proposes be drawn stretching from Buffalo to Rochester.

Question: Why would you want to split up lakefront communities?
Answer: You wouldn't, unless you didn't care about the community of interest that is lakefront communities and wished to oppress their community. And that would be a disgraceful neglect of fair, neutral, non-partisan redistricting principles. And that is not something we can stand for.

Now, maybe drawing a district based on communities of interest turns out to favor the Democratic Party. But honestly, who is to say - maybe it won't end up favoring the Democratic Party. After all, voting patterns change and will be different in 2022 than they were in 2020. And naturally we haven't even looked at partisan data from 2020 and know nothing whatsoever about such things.

So even if it does favor one particular political party, it is a mere coincidence that flows naturally from drawing a map that respects communities of interest in New York State such as what Maloney has proposed. Just one of those things.

LOL. I actually did.    If the Court swallows that load of sh*t, they all should be disbarred. Following COI's in NYS creates Pub districts. You can write that down for future reference.

In other news, I just finished my "fair" map for NYS that follows COI's and all the other appropriate metrics, and NY-11 does go to lower Manhattan, after taking in Bay Ridge and Sunset Park. And of course a map that hews to COI's gives the Orthodox Jews their CD in Brooklyn. Any map that does not is a joke if it claims to be anything other than a gerrymander under any reasonable set of metrics.

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

Looks like quasi-least change in Western New York.

[ProgressiveModerate]

Here's whole county of upstate

[ProgressiveModerate]

NY-19 takes in Binghamton and Utica

[Roll Roons]

NY-19 takes in Binghamton and Utica

Then we will burn Utica to the ground!

[lfromnj]

https://twitter.com/Shvm_07/status/1487891073607389186?cxt=HHwWhMC-rYvDhqYpAAAA

[ProgressiveModerate]

So seems like 3 upstate Safe R seats with every D seat getting bluer or staying the same

Real question is what's up with NY-1/NY-2 and where NY-11 attatches

[Former Dean Phillips Supporters for Haley (I guess???!?) 👁️]

This is ridiculous. Why can't they just show us a map of the damn map? 

[ProgressiveModerate]

No real suprise but this seems to be the new NY-26

[lfromnj]

https://twitter.com/WhaleBallot/status/1487892515395018753

[Born to Slay. Forced to Work.]

Is there a map?

[ProgressiveModerate]

Is there a map?

We're piecing it together slowly but surely. Come back in a week

[Brittain33]

Is there a map?

No, just descriptions of counties, towns, and precincts that individuals are putting into DRA and posting on Twitter.

[ProgressiveModerate]

Uh NY-25 is weird. I wonder if they meant West Bloomfield Town over East Bloomfield Town



Still makes it weird but at least contigous

[Brittain33]

https://twitter.com/EvanPerc_/status/1487895839909494788?s=20&t=kKVGtkGrwC89...

[Brittain33]

Looks like they left virtually no Democrats on the table upstate. Well done.

[Sestak]

[snip tweet]

what the actual fyck is that second Republican district. We've had hundreds of drafts posted by people in this thread that give Dems one more seat than this and are cleaner!

[ProgressiveModerate]

Ok they did a good job, though it seems like as usual things are messier than they have to be. That NY-24...

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

This is ridiculous. Why can't they just show us a map of the damn map? 

The Rent is Too Damn High. The Map Release is Too Damn Slow.

[ProgressiveModerate]

Oh Dang they really shored up Delgado. That seat looks pretty cozy

[Brittain33]

[snip tweet]

what the actual fyck is that second Republican district. We've had hundreds of drafts posted by people in this thread that give Dems one more seat than this and are cleaner!

I think this is what happens when you make the Buffalo, Rochester, and Syracuse seats as safe as can be for Dems. You have two lobes of Republican territory that have to be connected.