Redistricting

Goochland's GIS analyst is

Jonathan Worley

Goochland Board of Supervisor are responsible for creating districts in which we vote for local politicians for what offices?

School board and Board of Supervisors

racial gerrymandering

The drawing of election districts so as to ensure that members of a certain race are a minority in the district; ruled unconstitutional in Gomillion v. Lightfoot (1960).

True or False The Census if four pages long

True

GIS helps with all of the following:

911 routes; voting districts; school districts; FEMA

partisan

Devoted to or biased in support of a party, group, or cause

Elbridge Gerry

Father of gerrymandering.

GIS stands for

Geographic Information System

The first Census was done during which President's term?

George Washington

Which branch of government has traditionally been responsbile for drawing the district lines we live, that determine where we go to school and who will be our potential elected officials.

Legislative Branch

Gerrymandering

Process of redrawing legislative boundaries for the purpose of benefiting the party in power.

Redistricting

The redrawing of congressional and other legislative district lines following the census, to accommodate population shifts and keep districts as equal as possible in population.

True or False The completion of the U.S. Census is required by law

True

The Census determines how many members each state receives in the

U.S. House of Representatives (based off population)

packing

concentrating partisan voters in a single district in order to maximize the number of representatives that can be elected by the opposition in other districts

The three ways to complete the Census include:

in person; online; via USPS

partisan gerrymandering

process by which districts are drawn to maximize the number of House seats a political party can win

Four systems the U.S. Census is broken into include:

region, division, blocks, and tracts

Cracking

spreading voters of one type over many districts where they will comprise minorities that are unable to influence elections

US Census

the enumeration of the population of the United States that is conducted every 10 years