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« Reply #50 on: September 23, 2021, 09:56:09 AM »

This is the final map.



There is a band across central Dallas that is predominately Hispanic, but it is really two areas. Unfortunately, it would be easy to give each area 1.5 district. But instead we get the ungainly district crossing south of downtown. If we include too many black voters in these districts they will outvote the Hispanic vote in the Democratic primary. Too many Anglo voters and they will outvote the Hispanic voters in the general election. For equal numbers of residents, Anglo voters may predominate by two or three times.

There were a few tweaks. All of the city of Balch Springs was placed in the Mesquite district, and parts of the city of Garland in Richardson ISD were placed in the Garland ISD. This allowed a larger area in southern Garland to be included in the Dallas districts.

The area in southwestern Dallas ISD that had initially been included in the Grand Prairie-Cedar Hill district for population balance reasons was shifted back into the Dallas area. To replace the population, an area in Duncanville ISD was added. The area moved is in the city of Dallas. This was in turn replaced by areas in Dallas ISD in the area east of Duncanville.

A more comfortable map could be created by combining the orange and yellow districts and  making the blue and brown district more compact to the north.
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« Reply #51 on: September 25, 2021, 11:01:38 AM »

This shows the demographic breakdown of the Dallas districts.


DistrictBidenTrumpVotersVAP
11482.6%16.4%40.7%Black 58.4%, Hispanic 24.8%, White 13.2%, Other 2.6%, Asian 1.1%, 
11568.2%30.4%35.4%Hispanic 43.1%, Black 27.9%, White 21.5%, Asian 4.4%, Other 3.0%, 
11657.8%40.6%39.0%White 36.5%, Asian 26.2%, Hispanic 25.1%, Black 8.9%, Other 3.3%, 
11759.1%39.6%31.3%Hispanic 40.5%, White 30.0%, Black 22.6%, Asian 4.1%, Other 2.9%, 
11860.3%38.3%26.3%Hispanic 46.5%, White 24.7%, Asian 13.0%, Black 12.9%, Other 2.9%, 
11958.3%39.9%41.2%White 49.5%, Hispanic 23.9%, Black 13.6%, Asian 9.1%, Other 3.9%, 
12057.9%40.7%32.4%Hispanic 39.1%, White 29.6%, Black 14.5%, Asian 13.9%, Other 2.9%, 
12163.5%34.7%39.3%White 46.5%, Black 22.2%, Hispanic 21.5%, Asian 6.2%, Other 3.7%, 
12253.2%45.5%58.3%White 72.5%, Hispanic 13.0%, Asian 5.6%, Black 5.2%, Other 3.7%, 
12373.5%25.0%23.8%Hispanic 60.0%, Black 20.4%, White 16.0%, Other 2.0%, Asian 1.5%, 
12479.0%19.5%34.1%Hispanic 48.1%, White 25.6%, Black 21.5%, Other 2.9%, Asian 2.0%, 
12577.3%21.3%23.6%Hispanic 65.8%, White 16.4%, Black 12.9%, Asian 2.9%, Other 2.0%, 
12685.2%13.6%26.0%Black 47.5%, Hispanic 39.0%, White 10.8%, Other 2.3%, Asian 0.5%, 

Note in all districts except HD-122 (Dallas North-Park Cities) the Hispanic population is over 20%. In general there is not sufficient residential segregation to produce compact concentrations of Hispanic voters. The current map draws tendrils into Farmers Branch, Irving, Grand Prairie, Mesquite, etc. to pick up Hispanic voters (note the tangle of small precincts in Irving and Grand Prairie). If one were to draw school attendance zones in a similar manner it would be a clear violation of equal protection. If one can not assign students to schools in that way, why can voters be assigned to districts in a like manner?

Also note the large variation in turnout relative to population. There is a 2.5 to one variation in this metric. Does HD-122 represent voter packing?

HD-114 and HD-126 would clearly be performing districts for black voters. The grouping of ISD's in HD-114 was deliberate (the city of DeSoto is majority black). HD-126 was drawn to exclude black voters from HD-124 (but note that HD-126 is 39.0% Hispanic VAP).

HD-123 and HD-125 would be performing Hispanic districts. HD-124 might be, but the high Biden share (3rd highest) and moderate turnout (8th highest) indicate that the black population might prevail in the primary. HD-100 in the current map is similar.

The Asian population in HD-116 (26.2%) was remarkable. I would have expected that it would be highest in HD-119 because Richardson ISD is noted for having the best public schools in the area other than Highland Park ISD.
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« Reply #52 on: September 25, 2021, 11:22:53 PM »

I made a map based off what jimrtex allocated and here's what I got: https://davesredistricting.org/join/9c756ce4-d3e1-4873-a7c1-493191d9db78

Trump 86 Biden 64
Cornyn 88 Biden 62

There's some competitive district that democrats could flip but there's also some that Republicans could.
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A nonpartisan map would either give Biden a majority of Districts won, or something very close to that.

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Its called a geography bias. Texas geography strongly favors Democrats, as can clearly be seen by Biden coming 1 District short of tying the seat count in an existing Republican gerrymander. Maps ought to reflect the fact that geography works in such a direction. And no, I am not a hack on this topic who claims that geography somehow favors Democrats everywhere, as I am fully willing to admit that it can favor Republicans in some cases, including as examples, Illinois and Pennsylvania.
It doesn't though as can be seen by the map I drew
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« Reply #53 on: September 26, 2021, 02:33:17 AM »

This shows the district numbers. District numbers follow a pattern similar to that currently used. District for the largest counties are highest: Harris (127-150), Dallas (114-126), Tarrant (103-113), Bexar (93-102), and Travis (87-92). Districts for smaller counties are numbered down the eastern part of the state (1-20), then down the coast (31-36), down to the southern tip (37-44), back up along I-35 or just west of it (45-71), and then down and then out to El Paso (72-79) and pack up to the panhandle (80-86)



Major CityDistrictBidenTrumpVotersVAP
Texarkana123.7%75.2%42.2%White 69.4%, Black 17.1%, Hispanic 7.6%, Other 5.0%, Asian 0.9%, 
Plano2,66-7045.2%53.0%45.6%White 55.5%, Asian 15.9%, Hispanic 14.5%, Black 9.7%, Other 4.5%, 
Mount Pleasant319.8%79.3%45.2%White 72.4%, Hispanic 14.3%, Black 8.6%, Other 4.0%, Asian 0.6%, 
Tyler4-528.3%70.3%41.9%White 62.5%, Black 16.4%, Hispanic 15.7%, Other 3.8%, Asian 1.5%, 
Forney626.5%72.4%40.4%White 66.3%, Hispanic 17.8%, Black 10.5%, Other 4.2%, Asian 1.2%, 
Rowlett737.0%61.5%49.4%White 60.6%, Hispanic 17.3%, Black 10.6%, Asian 7.1%, Other 4.4%, 
Waxahachie832.2%66.2%44.5%White 59.2%, Hispanic 23.8%, Black 12.1%, Other 4.0%, Asian 0.8%, 
Corsicana921.6%77.4%38.8%White 66.3%, Hispanic 17.0%, Black 12.0%, Other 4.0%, Asian 0.7%, 
Waco10,5731.7%66.8%39.6%White 60.6%, Hispanic 21.0%, Black 13.2%, Other 3.7%, Asian 1.5%, 
Nacogdoches1126.1%72.7%40.7%White 62.7%, Hispanic 17.1%, Black 16.1%, Other 3.4%, Asian 0.7%, 
Marshall1221.9%77.2%46.4%White 69.8%, Black 17.1%, Hispanic 8.9%, Other 3.6%, Asian 0.6%, 
Huntsville1327.6%71.2%37.1%White 58.9%, Hispanic 19.6%, Black 17.4%, Other 3.0%, Asian 1.2%, 
The Woodlands14-1829.7%68.7%42.3%White 61.9%, Hispanic 22.9%, Black 7.2%, Asian 4.0%, Other 3.9%, 
Dayton1919.7%79.4%40.1%White 66.6%, Hispanic 19.9%, Black 9.0%, Other 3.9%, Asian 0.6%, 
Beaumont20-2135.3%63.5%39.8%White 55.3%, Black 23.4%, Hispanic 15.4%, Other 3.0%, Asian 2.9%, 
League City22-2335.5%62.9%44.5%White 59.0%, Hispanic 22.3%, Black 11.5%, Other 3.8%, Asian 3.4%, 
Pearland24-2540.2%58.3%41.7%White 46.9%, Hispanic 28.2%, Black 14.5%, Asian 7.0%, Other 3.5%, 
Sugar Land26-3051.3%47.3%43.0%White 34.2%, Hispanic 23.8%, Black 19.6%, Asian 19.4%, Other 3.0%, 
Victoria3128.5%70.3%39.0%White 47.7%, Hispanic 40.5%, Black 7.7%, Other 2.3%, Asian 1.8%, 
Bastrop3236.4%61.8%39.7%White 53.7%, Hispanic 36.2%, Black 6.3%, Other 3.2%, Asian 0.6%, 
Seguin3336.0%62.3%44.4%White 51.7%, Hispanic 35.5%, Black 7.0%, Other 4.0%, Asian 1.8%, 
Beeville3425.0%74.0%41.3%White 48.9%, Hispanic 43.6%, Black 4.5%, Other 2.5%, Asian 0.6%, 
Corpus Christi35-3645.4%53.1%37.3%Hispanic 55.8%, White 35.7%, Black 3.6%, Other 2.7%, Asian 2.2%, 
Kingsville3741.6%57.3%37.1%Hispanic 65.9%, White 28.7%, Other 2.5%, Black 1.7%, Asian 1.2%, 
Brownsville38-4457.1%41.9%26.0%Hispanic 89.9%, White 8.1%, Asian 0.9%, Other 0.6%, Black 0.4%, 
Laredo45-4656.9%42.1%27.8%Hispanic 91.6%, White 6.5%, Other 0.7%, Black 0.7%, Asian 0.5%, 
San Antonio47,93-10255.6%42.9%39.1%Hispanic 55.2%, White 31.4%, Black 7.1%, Asian 3.2%, Other 3.1%, 
New Braunfels48-4942.5%55.7%49.3%White 59.5%, Hispanic 30.7%, Other 4.7%, Black 3.3%, Asian 1.8%, 
Austin50,87-9267.8%30.1%47.1%White 51.7%, Hispanic 29.4%, Asian 7.5%, Black 7.4%, Other 4.1%, 
Round Rock51-5349.5%48.2%47.2%White 59.0%, Hispanic 21.7%, Asian 8.5%, Black 6.3%, Other 4.5%, 
Killeen54-5544.7%53.2%34.5%White 46.3%, Hispanic 22.5%, Black 21.3%, Other 6.5%, Asian 3.3%, 
Copperas Cove5621.8%76.7%42.9%White 70.0%, Hispanic 17.0%, Black 6.6%, Other 5.0%, Asian 1.4%, 
Burleson5822.2%76.5%41.0%White 70.7%, Hispanic 20.0%, Other 4.9%, Black 3.4%, Asian 1.0%, 
Stephenville5915.3%83.4%46.4%White 77.7%, Hispanic 15.7%, Other 3.9%, Black 2.0%, Asian 0.7%, 
Weatherford6016.4%82.2%50.3%White 81.4%, Hispanic 11.9%, Other 4.8%, Black 1.3%, Asian 0.7%, 
Denton61-6543.0%55.4%46.2%White 58.2%, Hispanic 18.0%, Black 9.7%, Asian 9.4%, Other 4.6%, 
Sherman7121.3%77.3%44.8%White 75.5%, Hispanic 13.0%, Other 6.0%, Black 4.3%, Asian 1.2%, 
Wichita Falls7222.5%76.0%38.7%White 67.6%, Hispanic 17.9%, Black 8.1%, Other 4.7%, Asian 1.8%, 
Abileme7322.5%75.7%39.6%White 66.2%, Hispanic 21.2%, Black 6.8%, Other 4.2%, Asian 1.6%, 
San Angelo7424.4%74.3%42.9%White 60.2%, Hispanic 32.5%, Other 3.5%, Black 2.5%, Asian 1.3%, 
El Paso75-7964.0%34.4%31.1%Hispanic 80.2%, White 13.9%, Black 2.8%, Other 1.8%, Asian 1.3%, 
Odessa8024.0%74.8%27.9%Hispanic 56.7%, White 35.1%, Black 4.3%, Other 2.5%, Asian 1.4%, 
Midland8120.1%78.4%34.5%White 48.1%, Hispanic 41.1%, Black 5.7%, Other 3.1%, Asian 2.0%, 
Big Spring8217.4%81.5%32.9%White 49.9%, Hispanic 43.4%, Black 3.9%, Other 2.3%, Asian 0.5%, 
Lubbock83-8431.0%67.4%37.8%White 51.3%, Hispanic 35.4%, Black 7.4%, Other 3.2%, Asian 2.8%, 
Amarillo8518.4%80.0%43.5%White 67.8%, Hispanic 23.8%, Other 4.0%, Black 2.9%, Asian 1.5%, 
Amarillo8622.1%76.2%30.3%White 49.4%, Hispanic 36.5%, Black 6.9%, Other 3.9%, Asian 3.4%, 
Fort Worth103-11349.3%49.1%39.5%White 46.9%, Hispanic 26.3%, Black 16.4%, Asian 6.3%, Other 4.1%, 
Dallas114-126
Houston127-130

Prior to division of larger counties, my estimate is 86:69 Trump districts.
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« Reply #54 on: September 26, 2021, 08:54:47 PM »

It took me 2 days to make this 100 R - 50 D super GOP Gerrymander TX State House! Results are based on the 2020 Senate race as it's the closet to the overall popular vote in the state house last year. One seat in the Dallas area, Cornyn only won by a 0.04% margin, about every other GOP seat is pretty much safe. More info about my map is in my share link.

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Are you sure you followed the county nesting rule?
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« Reply #55 on: September 26, 2021, 08:58:41 PM »

It took me 2 days to make this 100 R - 50 D super GOP Gerrymander TX State House! Results are based on the 2020 Senate race as it's the closet to the overall popular vote in the state house last year. One seat in the Dallas area, Cornyn only won by a 0.04% margin, about every other GOP seat is pretty much safe. More info about my map is in my share link.

https://davesredistricting.org/join/4c393fc6-8031-47e8-9840-1c3e1ba87830



Are you sure you followed the county nesting rule?

Ah , didn't know about the county nesting rule. Oh well Tongue

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« Reply #56 on: September 26, 2021, 11:55:33 PM »

This is the first cut at Tarrant.



Tarrant has 11 district totally contained in the county. The average size will be slightly below the quota (0.988). The 11 ISD's in the north have the equivalent of 4.544 districts so they will have to extend southward into Fort Worth or Arlington ISD's.

The first cut would have

(A) Eagle Mountain-Saginaw and Northwest;
(B) Keller and Carroll (Southlake);
(C) Grapevine-Colleyville and Euless and Bedford from HEB;
(D) Hurst from HEB and Birdville extending from Haltom City into the city of Fort Worth.
(E) Azle, White Settlement, Lake Worth, Castleberry and portions of FWISD including Benbrook.
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« Reply #57 on: September 28, 2021, 11:00:55 PM »

This is the first pass, creating the five northern districts.



By releasing the southern parts of HEB and Birdville ISDs that are in the cities of Fort Worth and Arlington, the western district is able to come in further. In addition, there is now sufficient population in the Arlington area to create two whole districts.

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« Reply #58 on: September 28, 2021, 11:23:49 PM »

This divides Fort Worth up.



The key is to create the Hispanic dominated district in the center of Fort Worth while also getting enough population for districts to the east and west. Generally, the Hispanic population is concentrated in the northern part of the city and also in the southwest, so we need a bridge. The eastern area has more blacks but is not overwhelming so. The western part of the city is whiter.

The eastern district takes in Everman ISD to get enough population. Mansfield then adds Kennedale ISD and some of Crowley ISD, though not the portion that is in the city of Crowley.

It turns out that Castleberry ISD and the northern part of Fort Worth ISD are Hispanic dominated. This requires the western district to push in further in the west.

The Burleson ISD takes in far southwest Fort Worth as well as nearer southwest area. A nearer southwest area.

It might be possible to swap this area for the Benbrook area. I probably prejudiced by thinking by starting out with Azle and White Settlement and Lake Worth and Castleberry and thinking of this as a suburban district, when it ended up as a western Fort Worth districts with a couple of small districts attached.

A lot of sloshing around resulted in a bit large population variation, but the map respects city limits, except for the Fort Worth sprawl. The cities of Grand Prairie also extend into Mansfield ISD.
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« Reply #59 on: September 29, 2021, 01:09:59 AM »
« Edited: October 03, 2021, 06:53:43 PM by jimrtex »

This is the final map, after dividing Arlington.





District Numbers.





Demographic and Election Results

DistrictBidenTrumpVotersVAP
10356.8%41.6%41.4%White 44.7%, Black 23.7%, Hispanic 23.1%, Asian 4.8%, Other 3.8%,
10439.3%58.9%40.7%White 55.0%, Hispanic 23.3%, Black 10.1%, Asian 7.0%, Other 4.6%,
10538.0%60.2%40.8%White 59.1%, Hispanic 24.2%, Black 6.9%, Asian 5.2%, Other 4.7%,
10652.3%46.4%44.6%White 45.0%, Black 24.0%, Hispanic 18.3%, Asian 8.3%, Other 4.4%,
10743.4%54.8%49.0%White 61.1%, Hispanic 15.6%, Asian 9.2%, Black 9.0%, Other 5.2%,
10838.6%59.8%50.1%White 64.7%, Hispanic 14.2%, Asian 9.8%, Black 6.6%, Other 4.7%,
10965.9%32.7%28.2%Hispanic 35.9%, Black 28.1%, White 23.6%, Asian 8.9%, Other 3.4%,
11049.7%48.7%43.0%White 51.1%, Hispanic 20.1%, Black 16.9%, Asian 7.7%, Other 4.2%,
11141.3%56.9%43.9%White 64.1%, Hispanic 19.4%, Black 9.5%, Other 4.5%, Asian 2.6%,
11273.5%25.2%30.0%Black 38.6%, Hispanic 33.3%, White 21.2%, Asian 3.8%, Other 3.1%,
11366.7%31.5%22.9%Hispanic 63.7%, White 23.1%, Black 9.2%, Other 2.0%, Asian 1.9%,

There are 6 Biden and 5 Trump districts. This is one more than I had estimated, shifting the statewide estimate to 85-70.

Somewhat surprising was the margin in the two southern districts (HD-103 and HD-106) which have experienced substantial black movement to the suburbs (nearly 25% VAP).

With a little effort, HD-110 might be flipped. The street grid in Arlington is quite regular. The voting precincts are not. HD-110 is 27% whiter than HD-109.
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« Reply #60 on: September 30, 2021, 10:18:52 AM »

Bexar ISDs



Bexar has two large ISD's: Northside and North East with over half the population. San Antonio is moderate sized, and a bunch of smaller districts particularly in the southern part of the county. Growth in San Antonio is primarily to the north. To the northeast it has oveflowed into Comal and Guadalupe counties. Many areas in the far south are still rural, with only modest overlflow into Wilson, Atascosa, amd Medina counties.

Bexar is entitled to 10.341 districts. The surplus is combined with Medina, Kendall, Bandera, and Uvalde to form an 11th district. I have assigned Boerne and Comal ISD's in the far north to form the surplus.

A ring of 8 districts around the southern periphery form one district, while Edgewood, South San Antonio, and Harlandale will form an inner city district.

North East and Judson ISD's will form three districts.

Northside is entitled to about 3.5 districts while San Antonio ISD is entitled to 1.5 districts. Three districts will be wholly in Northside, one wholly in San Antonio and one shared.

There will also have to be some tweaking for population reasons and to ensure smaller cities are wholly in a single district.

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« Reply #61 on: September 30, 2021, 11:03:52 AM »

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« Reply #62 on: September 30, 2021, 11:10:28 PM »


Thanks!

Anyone knows the partisan breakup?
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« Reply #63 on: September 30, 2021, 11:14:10 PM »


Thanks!

Anyone knows the partisan breakup?
Reportedly there are 86 Trump seats out of 150.
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« Reply #64 on: October 01, 2021, 01:46:39 AM »



At least two violations of Texas Constitution:

(1) Split of Henderson
(2) Not two whole districts in Cameron

Horrible contiguity:

Delta-Franklin 1/8 of mile.
Eastland-Shackleford 1 mile

Water contiguity:

HD-21 via Sabine Lake

Standard Deviation (assuming perfect division of multi-district areas):

PlanH2101: 3.040%
My Plan: 1.473%

Absolute Deviation:

         H2101 Me
0-1%   19    110
1-2%   39      27
2-3%   19      10
3-4%   42       6
4-5%   31       5
5%+      0       1
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« Reply #65 on: October 01, 2021, 08:21:00 AM »



At least two violations of Texas Constitution:

(1) Split of Henderson
(2) Not two whole districts in Cameron

Horrible contiguity:

Delta-Franklin 1/8 of mile.
Eastland-Shackleford 1 mile

Water contiguity:

HD-21 via Sabine Lake

Standard Deviation (assuming perfect division of multi-district areas):

PlanH2101: 3.040%
My Plan: 1.473%

Absolute Deviation:

         H2101 Me
0-1%   19    110
1-2%   39      27
2-3%   19      10
3-4%   42       6
4-5%   31       5
5%+      0       1

Treatment of Travis is dubious.

Travis is entitled to 6.640 representatives for a surplus of 0.640 (or a deviation of -5.1% for 7 districts).

My plan adds two counties with a population of 0.312, to reach 6.952 for a deviation of -0.7%.

The Huntermander adds two additional counties adding a total of 0.678 reaching a total of 7.318 or a surplus of 4.5%.

It is as if seven glasses were almost full and the doofus waiter poured much of an additional pitcher of water..

The Huntermander adds two addi
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« Reply #66 on: October 01, 2021, 04:32:30 PM »

This is the initial refinement of the Bexar map.



Cleaning up the boundary of the southern district to Connally Loop (I-410) illustrates how rural the southern part of the county is. The next outer loop Anderson Loop (FM 1604) is completed as a freeway but only on the north side. It is a two-lane road in the south.

In addition, cleaning up the boundary for cities of Schertz, Converse, Cibolo, made clear that the school district belong with Judson ISD, and not the southern ISD.

This leaves the southern proto-district way short. It will have to be augmented from Northside ISD. Meanwhile, I decided Comal and Boerne ISD's don't belong in the same district since they are separated by Camp Bullis. This resulted in the larger surplus being in the North East/Judson side, which will result in the San Antonio ISD-North East district being drawn to the west of Alamo Heights.

This map began the sketching in of the North East districts.
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« Reply #67 on: October 01, 2021, 04:56:35 PM »

Bexar Pass 3.



The main San Antonio ISD district was drawn based on population, followed by the San Antonio-North East district again based on population, and refinement of the two other North East districts, as well as a small nibble to get Northside up to enough for three districts.
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« Reply #68 on: October 01, 2021, 05:32:50 PM »


Thanks!

Anyone knows the partisan breakup?
Reportedly there are 86 Trump seats out of 150.

So still 4 seats short of quarum?
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« Reply #69 on: October 01, 2021, 05:37:26 PM »


Thanks!

Anyone knows the partisan breakup?
Reportedly there are 86 Trump seats out of 150.

So still 4 seats short of quarum?
Is 90 seats the quorum threshold? Then yes.
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« Reply #70 on: October 01, 2021, 05:46:15 PM »

This is the final map.



The southern district was brought north into Northside ISD and also included the two pieces of Medina Valley ISD that extend into Bexar County. The rural nature of the southern part of the county is illustrated by the fact that the largest component of the population is the small area in Northside ISD.

The three districts in Northside were then drawn. The somewhat odd shape of the northern district is to get all of the city of Helotes into the district and to recognized the population along I-10 W (which exits San Antonio heading north). But for the freeway, the area would be too topographically challenged for much settlement as you are heading up into the Hill Country.
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« Reply #71 on: October 01, 2021, 05:59:10 PM »


Thanks!

Anyone knows the partisan breakup?
Reportedly there are 86 Trump seats out of 150.

So still 4 seats short of quarum?

The quorum is 2/3. When there were two vacancies the quorum was 99 (and that was what was reached in the second called session). Oddly, one Democrat resigned to take a position at a community college. The other was Jake Ellzey who was elected in a special election to Congress.

One vacancy was filled this week. The other was almost picked up by a Republican in the special election, but will go to a runoff.

With 149 members, the quorum is back up to 100. Texas is somewhat odd in having a super-majority quorum. The original idea was to prevent a small minority gathering and acting as the whole body.

The simplest solution would be to deem that a representative has resigned of having 10 unexcused absences.
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« Reply #72 on: October 01, 2021, 06:00:51 PM »


Thanks!

Anyone knows the partisan breakup?
Reportedly there are 86 Trump seats out of 150.

So still 4 seats short of quarum?
Is 90 seats the quorum threshold? Then yes.
Actually Texus generic R may perform better than Trump. Do you know how many seats Cornyn won? They could probably get enough seats.
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« Reply #73 on: October 01, 2021, 06:07:48 PM »


Thanks!

Anyone knows the partisan breakup?
Reportedly there are 86 Trump seats out of 150.

So still 4 seats short of quarum?

The quorum is 2/3. When there were two vacancies the quorum was 99 (and that was what was reached in the second called session). Oddly, one Democrat resigned to take a position at a community college. The other was Jake Ellzey who was elected in a special election to Congress.

One vacancy was filled this week. The other was almost picked up by a Republican in the special election, but will go to a runoff.

With 149 members, the quorum is back up to 100. Texas is somewhat odd in having a super-majority quorum. The original idea was to prevent a small minority gathering and acting as the whole body.

The simplest solution would be to deem that a representative has resigned of having 10 unexcused absences.

can they do this without an amendment? I feel this is too good to be ture. OR dems can do this as well I guess?
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« Reply #74 on: October 01, 2021, 06:08:49 PM »


Thanks!

Anyone knows the partisan breakup?
Reportedly there are 86 Trump seats out of 150.

So still 4 seats short of quarum?
Is 90 seats the quorum threshold? Then yes.
Actually Texus generic R may perform better than Trump. Do you know how many seats Cornyn won? They could probably get enough seats.

Yeah, a lot of suburbs in Texas are quite a bit more Republican downballot than they are at the presidential level. I wouldn't be surprised if there are quite a few Biden-R seats after 2022.
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