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Who Should Redistrict?

Date: October 23, 2005

Author: Dean E. Murphy

QUOTE: ...how many of the complaints about elections would really disappear simply by taking the redistricting process out of the hands of elected officials? Houston says districts should be compact and competitive, but in California, like-minded people tend to cluster.

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Key People:

• Nicole Boyle
• Prof. Michael P. McDonald
• Prof. Bruce Cain
• Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger

Key Organizations:

• Center for Voting and Democracy (CVD)
• Justice Department/Department of Justice (DOJ)
• League of Women Voters, The (LWV)
• New York Times Company
• US Supreme Court (SCOTUS)

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• Abstract Principles
  • Control / Access / Permission
    • Sharing / Resource Allocation
      • Self-regulation
  • Information
    • Arguments / Debates / Demagoguery
      • Consistency/Hypocrisy

• Government & Politics / History
  • Government (General)
    • Democracy
      • Elections / Voting (general)

• North America
  • United States of America/USA
    • Arizona
    • California
    • Ohio
    • Pennsylvania

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