AZ Redistricting Update Aug 21, 2021

 

IRC Meeting Update: During this week's meeting, the IRC discussed the schedule for the Commissioners and members of the public to receive training on the ESRI mapping tool. The public training has yet to be scheduled; stay tuned.  The Commission will meet again on Tuesday, August 24th in a special meeting to be trained on the ESRI tool. This meeting will not be open to the public. The IRC is scheduled to review and approve the grid maps on September 14th. The grid maps are drawn using only two criteria (population data and compactness), and serve as the starting point for the mapping process. [IRC Public Meetings]

Public Hearings: The IRC finished its first round of public hearings on Monday, August 9th. Recordings of many of the hearings are available via the IRC's website. [IRC Listening Tour] Additionally, the IRC's listening tour online community survey closed on Wednesday, August 11th. There were 910 online submissions, which are available for view online. [IRC Submission Dashboard]

Redistricting Info Sessions: Join us for an hour-long informational session on the Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission. We'll cover the history of the commission, how our maps are drawn, and how Arizonans can engage in this exciting process. Our next sessions will be held Friday, August 28 at 1PM. [IRC Info Sessions]

News Clips:  Arizona: Latinos' next census task: Get money and power through redistricting (NBC News, August 11) Redistricting commission hears community concerns, partisan talking points on listening tour (AZMirror, August 11) Time for the IRC to 'up its game' (Arizona Daily Sun, August 15) US: Marginalized Groups Look to Get on the (Redistricting) Map (New York Times, August 12) Mathematicians are deploying algorithms to stop gerrymandering (MIT Technology Review, August 12) Democrats look to state courts as redistricting battle heats up (The Hill, August 15) 2020 census results could hurt Republican gerrymandering efforts (yahoo!news, August 15) How the Supreme Court Flunked a Math Test on Gerrymandering (Daily Beast, August 17) A Surge of Citizen Activism Amps Up the Fight Against Gerrymandering (Bloomberg, August 18)

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