The Roadmap for Fair Maps in 2030 - A Summary of the 2023

2 The Roadmap for Fair Maps in 2030 A REDISTRICTING COMMISSION’S RECIPE FOR SUCCESS Unsurprisingly, all those who attended the con- ference believed in the possibilities of fair and representative maps and that independent re- The participants also agreed that there districting commissions were the best strategy was no one-si. [...] The Gingles prongs require (1) a demonstration that a community is sufficiently populous and geographically compact to constitute a majority of a reasonably configured district’s population, (2) that the community tends to vote similarly, and (3) that the majority population tends to vote in a bloc to defeat the minority community’s preferred candidates. [...] Because drawing fair maps is an art and not a science, it is critical that diverse individuals listen to the public and assess all the data to connect faces and stories to the numbers. [...] Before the 2030 redistricting cycle begins, tools must be designed to allow the public to contribute to fair maps and allow commissions to collect, store, identify patterns, and analyze the data to ensure that they better “listen” to the public. [...] The collection and preparation of the data must take place before the arrival of Census data to allow enough time to create map overlays that can be used during the drawing of the maps.