Juggling Tires, Teapots, Burning Torches, and Pennies: The Challenge of Defining The “Communities of Interest” Criterion in Municipal Redistricting
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: decision to invalidate the Legislature-drawn State Senate and Congressional maps. 4 Not until February 2024 did New York finalize its district lines for 2024 and the rest of the decade.5 Because of the process' national implications, the media and academics have thus-understandably-spilled countless drops of ink on the pitfalls of New York's state-led redistricting process.6 Yet Upstate New York's three largest municipalities-Buffalo, Rochester, and Syracuse-added additional fireworks to the state's 2020 redistricting extravaganza.In Buffalo, grassroots groups staunchly opposed the Common Council's efforts at keeping a number of peculiarly-shaped districts intact.7 In Monroe County (home to Rochester), the Guide to New York's Redistricting Mess, N.Y.MAG.(Apr.22, 2022),
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Author: Burke, Steve
Language: English
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7048171893
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