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Overview Redistricting Information

  • RedistrictingCA Pocket Guide What is Redistricting? Why is it important to me? How can I participate in redistricting in CA? What redistricting terms should I know? Get answers to these questions and more by downloading the Pocket Guide
  • ABC’s of Redistricting (Loyola School of Law) If you don’t know much about redistricting or need a quick refresher, this is a fantastic resource.
  • Spikes and Bolts: The Rules of the Game (Asian Pacific American Legal Center) This presentation gives a good overview of why we redistrict and what criteria for drawing congressional and state maps will be used by the Citizens Redistricting Commission.
  • Getting Involved in the Redistricting Process (African American Redistricting Collaborative) This is a good outline for why and how communities should get involved in the redistricting process.
  • Redistricting 101 (Asian Law Caucus) Christopher Punongbayan from the Asian Law Caucus gave a great overview of the redistricting process at the conference last week. He told us about “how equal is equal” when it comes to the size of districts and detailed the requirements from the Voting Rights Act.

California Citizens Redistricting Commission (CRC)

  • What is the CRC? The commission is a 14 member body made up of five Republicans, five Democrats and four commissioners registered as Decline to State or another political party.  It is tasked with drawing lines for California’s congressional, State Senate, State Assembly and Board of Equalization districts.
  • Who are the commissioners? Five Republicans, five Democrats and four commissioners registered as Decline to State or another political party make up the sitting CRC.
  • When is the next meeting?

Voting Rights Act

Supporting Your Community in the Redistricting Process

Potential Abuses of Redistricting

  • Captive “Constituents” (NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund) Most state and local governments count incarcerated persons as residents of the prison communities where they are incarcerated when drawing election district lines, despite the fact that prisoners are not integrated into those communities and are not residents there.