Fair Redistricting

Maptitude for Redistricting is the professional tool for political redistricting of electoral districts. The ease-of-use, fitness-for-purpose, and competitive pricing of Maptitude for Redistricting have made Maptitude the dominant product for political redistricting. Maptitude provides measures and reports that support the creation of fair and balanced districts. Maptitude is constantly enhanced and provides cutting-edge tools such as the Efficiency Gap Measure, Mean-Median, and Declination for exploring redistricting problems. Maptitude was used to democratize redistricting in California and is used by the majority of redistricters, from independent commissions, non-profits, and civil rights groups, to the courts and political parties. The redistricting community has standardized on Maptitude, ensuring that plans can be directly compared. Widespread industry expertise with the software ensures a familiarity with the tools and methods that enable the creation of fair districts in support of redistricting reform.

“Free and fair elections are the very foundation of American democracy and the most basic promise that those in power can pledge to citizens.” Larry Hogan Governor, Maryland

A few of the many examples of how Maptitude for Redistricting has been used to support fair redistricting:

• Ending Prison Gerrymandering in Maryland and New York
  “Maryland Department of Legislative Services (DLS) contracted with the Caliper Corporation, developer of Maptitude (a software program widely used to create legislative districts) to assign the geocoded incarcerated individuals to the appropriate census blocks. Using its Maptitude software, Caliper first removed the incarcerated individuals from the census blocks where the correctional facilities were located. Caliper then assigned each geocoded address to its appropriate census block. Caliper generated tracts and blocks and determined the increase and decrease in population.”
  Full report: How Maryland & New York Ended Prison Gerrymandering
   
• Facilitating Democratized Redistricting in California
  California Citizens Redistricting Commission (CRC) is tasked with guiding an independent redistricting process. The Commission must draw district lines in conformity with strict, nonpartisan rules designed to create districts of relatively equal population that will provide fair representation for all Californians.
  Case Study: Creating Transparency, Openness, and Trust: Modern Approaches to Redistricting
   
• Providing Citizens with the Opportunity to Redraw Districts
  Maptitude for Online Redistricting is the tool of choice for Maryland's Emergency Commission on Sixth Congressional District Gerrymandering. Maryland announced it will provide citizens with the opportunity to help redraw Maryland’s 6th Congressional district.

“[The Florida Supreme Court] has acquired and utilized Maptitude software....Equipped with modern map analysis software and the parties' submissions, this Court will have the necessary tools to quickly and easily analyze compactness, boundaries, demographic information, and performance data without the need for extensive discovery or evidentiary proceedings and thus is able to effectively evaluate the data necessary to draw and consider alternative district configurations.” – The League of Women Voters of Florida

Maptitude Online Redistricting (MORe) was developed to support fair districting so that the public can view, create, and submit fair congressional plans and fair state legislative plans. A few examples of how MORe has been used:

• Arizona deployed Maptitude Online Redistricting so that the public could submit congressional and state legislative plans.
• Los Angeles deployed MORe for the redistricting of their 15 council member districts.
• Idaho deployed Maptitude Online Redistricting so that the public could submit congressional and state legislative plans. Anyone could access the Idaho online redistricting site and review the numerous plans that were submitted via Maptitude Online Redistricting.
• Fairfax, Virginia successfully redistricted using Maptitude Online Redistricting. According to a Fairfax spokesperson, "The software...makes it easy to develop plans in our tight timeframe." The chairman expressed that "This isn't going to take as long as we thought." Caliper's web-based redistricting software was used to provide redistricting capabilities to the general public as well as to state legislators and county commissioners.

Maptitude for redistricting is used to perform all types of redistricting such as council redistricting. Maptitude allows the districting commission for a city to use their criteria to determine the city council lines so as to provide fair and effective representation. Redistricting plans can be drawn in a manner that ensures the fair and effective representation of the racial and language minority groups within a city.