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Redistricting 101 Legal Concepts That Apply to Redistricting in California. Justin Levitt December 1, 2010. Today’s conversation. Similar to Feb. 25, 2010, presentation (produced with support of Brennan Center for Justice) Tailored to your task in selecting remaining Commissioners - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Redistricting 101Legal Concepts That Apply to
Redistricting in California
Justin LevittDecember 1, 2010
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Today’s conversation
• Similar to Feb. 25, 2010, presentation(produced with support of Brennan Center for Justice)
• Tailored to your task in selecting remaining Commissioners
• Updated to reflect passage of Proposition 20
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Today’s conversationFocus on the laws that the Commission will need to apply, to let you assess traits relevant to final selection
• Specific to laws governing California redistricting
• Specific to state and federal districts(Commission doesn’t draw local district lines)
• Legal requirements and concepts, but not legal jargon
• Requirements of California law, not advocacy
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Today’s conversation
Fleshes out the “relevant analytical skills” that Commissioners will need, to assist your selection process
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Today’s conversation
• Why?• Where?• What?• When?• Who?
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Today’s conversation
• Why?• Where?• What?• When?• Who?
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Why re-draw district lines?
• Population moves• Districts where there
were once roughly the same number of people …become lopsided
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Constitutional mandate to redraw lines
Districts have to have roughly equal population
Baker v. Carr, 1962
“One person, one vote”
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2000 ―2001 ―
2010 ―2011 ―
2020 ―2021 ―
And so…Census DayRedistricting
Census DayRedistricting
Census DayRedistricting
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Today’s conversation
• Why?• Where?• What?• When?• Who?
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“Where” starts with federal law
• Equal population
• Race and ethnicity
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Equal populationCongress
• Population equality “as nearly as is practicable”
• Good-faith effort to achieve “precise mathematical equality”
State legislature &
BoE
• “Reasonably equal” population in each district
• Generally up to 10% difference between most populated and
least populated district,for a legitimate reason
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PopulationDistrict 1 1,010District 2 1,035District 3 980District 4District 5 1,005District 6 990District 7 965District 8 1,020District 9
District 10 995
Total population 10,000Average (“ideal”) pop. 1,000
Deviation+ 1.0 %+ 3.5 %- 2.0 %
+ 0.5 %- 1.0 %- 3.5 %+ 2.0 %
- 0.5 %+ 5.0 %
- 6.0 %
1,050
940
Calculating equal population
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1,050
+ 5.0 %
940 - 6.0 %
PopulationDistrict 1 1,010District 2 1,035District 3 980District 4District 5 1,005District 6 990District 7 965District 8 1,020District 9
District 10 995
Total population 10,000Average (“ideal”) pop. 1,000
Deviation+ 1.0 %+ 3.5 %- 2.0 %
+ 0.5 %- 1.0 %- 3.5 %+ 2.0 %
- 0.5 %
Calculating equal population
Total deviation 11.0%
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Calculating equal populationCommissioners will:
• Need to calculate averages and deviation from average (or review staff calculations)
• Need to understand maps of population data, to adjust districts as necessary
• Need comfort with result other than strict 1-person deviation, for state and BoE districts
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“Where” starts with federal law
• Equal population
• Race and ethnicity
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Minority representation
Cracking
Packing
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The Voting Rights ActSection 2 • Do minorities represent most
of the voters in a concentrated area?
• Do others tend to vote for different candidates than minorities?
• Is the minority population otherwise protected given the “totality of the circumstances”?
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• rough overall proportionality in the jurisdiction• history of voting-related discrimination • extent of racially polarized voting• extent of discriminatory voting practices or procedures• exclusion of minority members from candidate slating• extent to which minority group members bear the effects of past
discrimination in areas such as education, employment, and health, which hinder their ability to participate effectively in the political process
• extent to which minority members have been elected• extent to which elected officials are unresponsive to the
particularized needs of members of the minority group
“Totality of the circumstances”
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The Voting Rights ActSection 2 • Do minorities represent most
of the voters in a concentrated area?
• Do others tend to vote for different candidates than minorities?
• Is the minority population otherwise protected given the “totality of the circumstances”?Do Not
Dilute
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The Voting Rights ActSection 5• Preclearance
(Kings, Merced, Monterey, Yuba)
• Is the new map intended to dilute minority votes?
• Does the new map leave minority voters worse off?
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Complying with the Voting Rights ActCommissioners will:
• Need to assess minority proportion of citizen voting-age population in a region (or review expert calculations)
• Need to determine voting patterns by race in that region(or review expert determinations)
• Need to assess practical opportunity to elect candidates of choice in the region (or review expert assessments)
• Need to consider qualitative and historical contextual circumstances (or review expert assessment)
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Complying with the Voting Rights ActCommissioners will:
• Need to creatively reconcile rights of multiple minority communities
• Need comfort drawing districts with “strange” shapes
Latino/HispanicAfrican-American
Chicago suburbs
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Complying with the Voting Rights ActCommissioners will:
• Need to creatively reconcile rights of multiple minority communities
• Need comfort drawing districts with “strange” shapes
Latino/HispanicAfrican-American
Chicago suburbs
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Complying with the Voting Rights ActCommissioners will:
• Need to creatively reconcile rights of multiple minority communities
• Need comfort drawing districts with “strange” shapes
Latino/HispanicAfrican-American
Chicago suburbs
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Complying with the Voting Rights ActCommissioners will:
• Need to creatively reconcile rights of multiple minority communities
• Need comfort drawing districts with “strange” shapes
Latino/HispanicAfrican-American
Chicago suburbs
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Where to draw the lines?• Equal population• Race and ethnicity• Contiguity • Political geography• Compactness• Nesting• Political candidates
Federal
Federal
State
State
State
State
State
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Where to draw the lines?• Equal population• Race and ethnicity• Contiguity • Political geography• Compactness• Nesting• Political candidates
Federal
Federal
State
State
State
State
State
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Contiguity• All parts of the district are connected to
each other
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Contiguity• Islands create special conditions
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Contiguity
Commissioners will:
• Need to be careful to ensure that all parts of the state are accounted for
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Where to draw the lines?• Equal population• Race and ethnicity• Contiguity • Political geography• Compactness• Nesting• Political candidates
Federal
Federal
State
State
State
State
State
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Political geography
• City• County• Local neighborhood• Local community
of interest
“a contiguous population which shares common social and economic interests that should be included within a single district . . .”- urban
- rural- industrial- agricultural
- living standards
- transportation- employment- media markets-
etc. . . .
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These lines may be irregularCity of Los
Angeles
Harbor Gateway North
Bel Air-Beverly Crest
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These lines may be irregularArizona’s 2nd Congressional
District
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Reconciling boundariesCommissioners will:
• Need to reconcile potential conflicts among geographies
• Need to reconcile potential conflicts in testimony, even when there is no “right” or “wrong”
• Need to be comfortable determining borders that are not pre-defined
• Need to be comfortable with “strange” shapes
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Where to draw the lines?• Equal population• Race and ethnicity• Contiguity • Political geography• Compactness• Nesting• Political candidates
Federal
Federal
State
State
State
State
State
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CompactnessMany think of “compactness” in terms of
abstract shapes
Source: 2000 Census
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CompactnessCalifornia standard: Don’t bypass nearby
population
Source: 2000 Census
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CompactnessCalifornia standard: Don’t bypass nearby
population
Source: 2000 Census
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CompactnessCalifornia standard: Don’t bypass nearby
population
Source: 2000 Census
Least populated
Most populated
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CompactnessCommissioners will:
• Need to be able to identify population clusters
• Need to be comfortable with “strange” shapes and, if necessary, ignore mathematically simple ones
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Where to draw the lines?• Equal population• Race and ethnicity• Contiguity • Political geography• Compactness• Nesting• Political candidates
Federal
Federal
State
State
State
State
State
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NestingSenateAssembly
Not nested
Nested
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NestingA valid map for state Senate, Assembly, or Board of Equalization can lead to an invalid map for one or more of the others
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NestingCommissioners will:
• Need to be comfortable re-evaluating one valid map if it leads to an invalid map for a different chamber
• Need to be comfortable with deviating from nesting where necessary
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Where to draw the lines?• Equal population• Race and ethnicity• Contiguity • Political geography• Compactness• Nesting• Political candidates
Federal
Federal
State
State
State
State
State
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Political candidates• Can’t consider
residence
2000
BarackObama
’shouse
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Political candidates• Can’t consider
residence
20002002
BarackObama
’shouse
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Political candidates• Can’t consider
residence• Can’t draw in order to
favor/disfavor incumbent, candidate, party
• Can consider party registration/voting information (and may have to, for Voting Rights Act)
20002002
BarackObama
’shouse
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Political candidatesCommissioners will:
• Need to know that there is information they are not permitted to utilize, and refrain from utilizing that information
• Need to know that having a partisan affiliation is OK, and considering partisan affiliation data is OK, but districts may not be drawn to favor a party
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Where to draw the lines?• Equal population• Race• Contiguity • Political geography• Compactness• Nesting• Political candidates
• Quantitative capacity (at least to review experts and staff)
• Qualitative capacity (to take testimonyand review expertise)
• Ability to consider and resolve conflicts
• Ability to be flexible
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• Don’t discount the value of experience with the redistricting process
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Watch out for natural human tendencies
• Many people prefer clarity to ambiguity
• Some prefer to spend less mental effort on more ambiguous concepts• But in some places, the law makes ambiguous concepts just as important as clear ones
(e.g., county boundaries v. community boundaries)
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Watch out for natural human tendencies
• In difficult choices, many people prefer to constrain their own discretion
• But in some places, the law intentionally leaves discretion, to further other objectives
(e.g., “reasonably equal” population may allow greater compliance with other criteria than strictly equal population)
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Watch out for natural human tendencies
• Many people have preconceived notions about what “good” looks like
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Watch out for natural human tendencies
• Many people have preconceived notions about what “good” looks like
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Watch out for natural human tendencies
• Many people have preconceived notions about what “good” looks like
• But the law asks for a careful balance of factors that doesn’t privilege any one picture of a good district
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Watch out for learned human tendencies
• Some people have preconceived notions about what certain redistricting factors mean
• But in some places, the law instructs how a factor should be measured
(e.g., compactness is not about shape, but about nearby areas of population)
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• And in other places, the commission as a wholemust arrive at a further understanding
(e.g., does “to the extent possible” have the same meaning as “to the extent practicable”)
Watch out for learned human tendencies
• Some people have preconceived notions about what certain redistricting factors mean
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• These tendencies can all be overcome, but they will be important to keep in mindas you make your final selections
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Today’s conversation
• Why?• Where?• What?• When?• Who?
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Commissioners draw lines• Draw lines
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Commissioners don’t just draw lines
• Draw lines• Hire (and supervise) staff and counsel• Establish hearing and public review
process• Coordinate with legislature on
hearings and access to data
• Produce report including defined terms / standards
• Defend litigation
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Today’s conversation
• Why?• Where?• What?• When?• Who?
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The timeline is quite shortDecember 31, 2010―
― ― ― ―
April 1, 2011 ― ―――
August 15, 2011 ―
Commission establishedCreate internal processLearn about redistrictingHire staffBegin taking testimonyLast possible day for Census dataContinue taking testimonyDraw mapsDraft explanatory reportApprove maps
― Litigation
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Today’s conversation
• Why?• Where?• What?• When?• Who?
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Qualities to look for• Quantitative capacity (at least to review
experts and staff) • Qualitative capacity (to take testimony and
review expertise) • Ability to consider and resolve conflicts• Ability to think beyond common
preconceptions• Ability to assist with managerial aspect of
commission Particularly given time constraints,
don’t discount experience
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Qualities to look forGiven the mandated partisan restrictions, ensure that the commission as a wholereflects the state’s diversity• Racial• Ethnic• Geographic• Gender
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Good luck !
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Justin LevittLoyola Law School, Los [email protected]
Brennan Center for Justicewww.brennancenter.org
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