NCSL National Redistricting Seminar ♦ Washington D.C. ♦ January 21-24, 2011

Adopting Guidelines for Redistricting

Guidelines can help legislative committees and commissions understand limits and goals in the redistricting process.  They can also lead to unreasonable expections.  How do you find the right balance?  What do you do when criteria conflict with one another?  In this session, a panel of experts and experience legislative staff will walk through  common districting guidelines and discuss how they can be defined and measured as well as the pros and cons of using guidelines.

Speakers:

Jeff Wice, Special Counsel, Senate, New York
Peter Wattson, Counsel to the Governor, Minnesota

A complete copy of Peter's Guidelines for Redistricting presentation is available for here.
A complete copy of the Population Summary Report is available here.
A complete copy of the Limits on Gerrymanders handout is available here.
A complete copy of the Table 8 handout is available here.
A complete copy of the Minnesota Malapportionment handout is available here.