Redistricting

Much of my work since retiring has been on redistricting:

• I spent a couple of years learning everything I could about how redistricting worked. I redistricted North Carolina and Maryland by hand using QGIS and Excel.
• Then I wrote a series of blog posts in which I did an in-depth analysis of how to get the House to better represent the People, as intended.
• That led to helping build Dave’s Redistricting (DRA), a web app that makes it easy for anyone to draw & evaluate redistricting plans. I wrote the analytics code. As part of that effort, I wrote dozens of blog posts about various aspects of the app and redistricting. I continue to be involved in DRA.
• I published “Estimating Seats-Votes Partisan Advantage” in Election Law Journal to explain how to estimate whether redistricting plans favor one political party or the other (ELJ, SSRN).
• I did a postmortem of redistricting & congressional elections 2012-2020 which yielded two surprising results (post).
• I’m doing more independent research & writing on redistricting, with my friend & colleague Todd Proebsting.
• I started Open Redistricting, to help ensure that the open redistricting ecosystem as a whole not only survives but thrives through 2032 and beyond.

I welcome suggestions for other research & coding opportunities.