Toward More Open Government: A Conference on Reforming the Redistricting Process
2008-12-01
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Toward More Open Government: A Conference on Reforming the Redistricting Process
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2008-12-01
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How are the boundaries of legislative districts determined? In Europe, non-partisan boundary commissions draw the boundaries. In the United States, state legislatures usually draw the boundaries for their own districts. Civic groups warn that legislators draw their own districts in ways to help themselves and their fellow partisans. In Minnesota, the process has the added challenge of not working over the past several cycles of redistricting. These questions take on urgency now because Minnesota may lose a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives owing to the state’s population size relative to that of other states.
The process to draw legislative districts is picking up speed in Minnesota. Leaders and citizens have questions about how the redistricting process will work, what risk Minnesota faces in terms of losing a congressional seat, and how other states draw legislative districts.
Toward More Open Government: A Conference on Reforming the Redistricting Process will examine the current process for drawing legislative districts, learn lessons from other states approaches to drawing legislative districts, and consider the risk of losing a congressional seat.
Center director Larry Jacobs was joined by Michael McDonald of George Mason University, Minnesota State Demographer Tom Gillaspy, John Griffin of the University of Notre Dame, legislators, and other experts to discuss this timely issue.
Support for this event was made possible in part by a generous gift from the Wallin Foundation.
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8:30-8:45AM: Continental Breakfast
8:45-10:00AM: Fixing a Broken System - Why Redistricting Reform?
Presenters:
Lawrence Jacobs, Director, Center for the Study of Politics & Governance
Tom Gillaspy, State Demographer, MN Department of Administration
Warren Limmer, Minority Whip, Minnesota Senate
Larry Pogemiller, Majority Leader, Minnesota Senate
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Lawrence Jacobs, Director, Center for the Study of Politics & Governance
10:00-10:15AM: Break
10:15-11:15AM: Redistricting Reforms Around the Country: What Minnesota Can Learn from Other States
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Michael McDonald, George Mason University
Ann Rest, Minnesota Senate
Laura Brod, Assistant Minority Leader, Minnesota House
Margaret Anderson Kelliher, Speaker, Minnesota House
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Keesha Gaskins, Executive Director, League of Women Voters Minnesota
11:15-11:30AM: Break
11:30-Noon: Competition and Minority Representation
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John Griffin, University of Notre Dame
Moderator:
Marcia Avner, Public Policy Director, Minnesota Council of Nonprofits
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Support for this event was made possible in part by a generous gift from the Wallin Foundation.
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Jacobs, Lawrence R.. (2008). Toward More Open Government: A Conference on Reforming the Redistricting Process. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/216255.
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