What is redistricting?
Redistricting is the process of drawing state and house district boundaries. Currently, the Indiana General Assembly draws those boundaries. Local activists believe that current maps suppress voter rights since they allow elected officials to choose their voters, rather than voters choosing public officials to represent them.
Our Advocacy Efforts:
With Indiana’s state House districts being the 5th most gerrymandered in the country, IMAN Associates acknowledges that partisan redistricting puts political considerations ahead of community interests and thwarts our democracy. With that being said, the organization joined the Indiana Coalition for Independent Redistricting, a coalition to advocate for redistricting reform. All organizations involved agreed that an independent, nonpartisan commission, powered by the people for the people, is the only way to draw fair maps and end gerrymandering in Indiana, a trifecta state with one party in power. Despite the herculean efforts to pass such a legislation, the super majority pushed back and blocked all the proposed bills. The 2020 legislative session was our last chance to bring redistricting reform to our Hoosier state before the 2021 census.
Given its commitment to drawing fair maps, the coalition decided to organize the Indiana Citizens Redistricting Commission (ICRC), a diverse and representative group of nine Hoosiers who will lead a public discussion about what criteria should direct redistricting in Indiana and identify important communities of interest throughout the state.
This information will be compiled and delivered to legislators with the request that they follow its recommendations as they embark on their map-drawing efforts.
ICRC members will also serve as judges for our public mapping competition which will invite Hoosiers to get directly involved in redistricting by drawing Congressional and state legislative maps themselves using open source software and public data. To learn more about the commission and the application to join, visit: allinfordemocracy.org.
Redistricting is the process of drawing state and house district boundaries. Currently, the Indiana General Assembly draws those boundaries. Local activists believe that current maps suppress voter rights since they allow elected officials to choose their voters, rather than voters choosing public officials to represent them.
Our Advocacy Efforts:
With Indiana’s state House districts being the 5th most gerrymandered in the country, IMAN Associates acknowledges that partisan redistricting puts political considerations ahead of community interests and thwarts our democracy. With that being said, the organization joined the Indiana Coalition for Independent Redistricting, a coalition to advocate for redistricting reform. All organizations involved agreed that an independent, nonpartisan commission, powered by the people for the people, is the only way to draw fair maps and end gerrymandering in Indiana, a trifecta state with one party in power. Despite the herculean efforts to pass such a legislation, the super majority pushed back and blocked all the proposed bills. The 2020 legislative session was our last chance to bring redistricting reform to our Hoosier state before the 2021 census.
Given its commitment to drawing fair maps, the coalition decided to organize the Indiana Citizens Redistricting Commission (ICRC), a diverse and representative group of nine Hoosiers who will lead a public discussion about what criteria should direct redistricting in Indiana and identify important communities of interest throughout the state.
This information will be compiled and delivered to legislators with the request that they follow its recommendations as they embark on their map-drawing efforts.
ICRC members will also serve as judges for our public mapping competition which will invite Hoosiers to get directly involved in redistricting by drawing Congressional and state legislative maps themselves using open source software and public data. To learn more about the commission and the application to join, visit: allinfordemocracy.org.