The Michigan Independent Citizens Redistricting Updates Blog
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The commission has completed its first draft map of State Senate districts. This was completed after commissioners reconciled districts in Southeast Michigan to accommodate for race and population data, as well as districts in West Michigan to include Kalamazoo, Battle Creek, Portage, and other surrounding suburbs in one State Senate district. The commission also drew […]
Read More >>>After drawing draft State Senate district lines in Southeast Michigan, the Commission continued drawing district lines in the Tri-Cities region which surrounds Midland, Bay City, and Saginaw. Provided with additional data from Election Data Services’s updated mapping software, the Commission began reconciling its current State Senate district maps alongside data that showed both the racial […]
Read More >>>Commissioner Rebecca Szetela (N) was voted to become Chair of the Commission during a vote at today’s meeting, M.C. Rothhorn (D) being voted as Vice-Chair. Szetela was previously Vice-Chair of the Commission, with Commissioner Brittini Kellom (D) as Chair. The Commission also continued drawing State Senate districts in Southeast Michigan, including Eastern Detroit communities such […]
Read More >>>The commission continued drawing State Senate district maps during its second mapping session on Thursday, September 9th. Led by Commissioner Juanita Curry, they finished mapping parts of Downriver to include Ecorse, River Rouge, and the Southwest parts of Detroit leading to Highland Park and Hamtramck. The following district, drawn by Commissioner Anthony Eid, was composed […]
Read More >>>The commission has begun drawing State Senate district maps in Southeast Michigan and Metro Detroit including Wayne, Oakland, Macomb, Saginaw, and Genesee Counties. Cities mapped include Downriver communities, Dearborn and Dearborn Heights, and Pontiac with Commerce and Waterford. They will continue mapping in Metro Detroit during their evening session. Meeting Information: Youtube Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rwW5FQLtyU&ab_channel=MICRC Meeting […]
Read More >>>Michigan residents will soon be able to comment on the draft maps that the commission has drawn for the State House, State Senate, and Congressional districts. The commission voted today to have their draft maps hosted on the MyDistricting website, which hosts the software that Election Data Services (EDS) is using to help the commission […]
Read More >>>As the MICRC continues to evaluate and reconcile State Senate districts in the Southwest and South Central parts of Michigan, they have also chosen to update their mapping processes and procedures for the draft mapping process. This update includes a change to the mapping schedule as a result of the Commission receiving the racial bloc […]
Read More >>>The MICRC met in Ann Arbor today to listen to a presentation on racial blog voting analysis by election consultant Dr. Lisa Handley and Voting Rights Act (VRA) legal counsel Bruce Adelson. This presentation addressed ways for the Commission to find adhere to VRA guidelines and preserve the voting power of minority populations in Michigan. […]
Read More >>>The commission continued to analyze Communities of Interest in relation to the drafted State House and State Senate district lines. Today, however, they began a new process of incorporating COIs that involved examining the COI “clusters” aggregated and analyzed by MGGG’s first COI report. The Commission used these clusters to evaluate and edit Senate and […]
Read More >>>The commission has finished drawing most of the State House and Senate districts in the western Michigan regions, including parts of Grand Rapids, Muskegon, and the surrounding suburbs. The commission also had a lengthy discussion on preserving lakeshore Communities of Interest. Meeting Information: Youtube Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDwtL0Fmxlo Meeting Date: 8/31/2021 Meeting Time: 10 AM – 5 PM […]
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