An Analysis of Public Input on Michigan’s Redistricting Process

Most Commonly Raised Constituent Concern: Partisanship An assessment of the most common themes showed that the individual code ‘Partisan Fairness and Competitive Districts’ within the Maps category came up in over 40% of comments, indicating constituents' notable concern about the partisanship of proposed maps despite the nonpartisan approach of the process. [...] Specifically, the blue bars show the percentage of the total population of the state that resides in a given region, while the red bars show the percentage of all regionally focused references that mention each region in particular. [...] RAs also recorded specific characteristics of each comment such as the meeting date, the commenter’s name, the hometown of the commenter, and whether the commenter spoke on behalf of a group, as well as a few other attributes into the spreadsheet. [...] Creating the Codebook Two RAs familiar with the MICRC process and public comments brainstormed approaches for analysis of the public comment data and took the lead on the project. [...] I look forward to engaging with you in the future.” - Code: 306, 304, 303 Mass Email 2: “Subject: Request for More Meetings; To the Michigan Redistricting Commission From: Bob Livingston Date: 03/09/21 Thank you for this opportunity to respond to the initial formation of the Redistricting Committee and the decennial redistricting of the state.