Redistricting Law Overview
Recent Presentations
What is a competitive district? What is a community of interest? Podcast - Redistrict. & Elections Committee 4/25/08 considers how states define competitiveness and communities of interest in the redistricting process.
The 50% Rule for Minority Districts: Supreme Court to Tackle Contentious Voting Rights Issue! Podcast re: case from NC with potential to resolve one of the most pressing questions about compliance with Sec 2-Voting Rights Act.
Voting Right Act: View the presentation by J. Gerald Hebert, Executive Director and Director of Litigation, Campaign Legal Center
District Competitiveness--View the presentation by Professor Michael McDonald from George Mason University in Virginia.
Communities of Interest in Redistricting--view the presentation by Douglas Johnson of National Demographics Incorporation from California.
The 50 Percent Rule for Minority Districts: View the presentation by Bill Gilkeson from the North Carolina Legislative Research Division.
Building the Database for Redistricting. --a presentation by Kim Brace from Election Data Services to NCSL's Redistricting and Elections Committee on April 25, 2008.
Presentations Pertaining to the 2000 Census
For more information on Redistricting - contact mailto: tim.storey@ncsl.org
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