Redistricting Toolkit Menu
We have developed "tools" to prepare Latino civic and community leaders with resources to get started on organizing their own redistricting effort. The redistricting tools will provide an overview of the process, recommendations for participation, background on redistricting cases and much more.
Please click on each of tools below to access the files
Redistricting Tool |
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Redistricting Fundamentals |
Learn about redistricting and why redistricting matters to the Latino community |
Apportionment |
Learn what about the 2010 apportionment process and which states gained or lost congressional seats |
How to Participate in your State’s |
Overview of how to organize and participate in redistricting |
How to Build Testimony of your |
Overview of a community of interest and how to define your local community of interest |
Sample a testimony for a community of interest |
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Redistricting Case Studies |
Each of the links provides a case study of how previous redistricting plans have affected the Latino community |
2002 state legislative plan illustrates why participation of the Latino community is important |
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1990 statewide redistricting plan and the successful challenge to the LA County redistricting plan |
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1992 congressional redistricting plan and the creation an irregularly shaped district to comply with the Voting Rights Act |
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2003 congressional redistricting plan struck down because it divided the Latino community |
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Sample Redistricting Op Ed |
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