[LWVNM Action] Press release from the Citizen Redistricting Committee - lots of good info

[Richard Mason]

*From: *Cliff Gilmore <cliff.gilmore at voxoptima.com>
*Date: *Monday, October 18, 2021 at 3:39 PM
*To: *"cliff W. Gilmore" <cliff.gilmore at voxoptima.com>
*Subject: *Citizen Redistricting Committee Meeting Shifted to 3:00 p.m.
October 20, 2021



Good afternoon.



The purpose of this email is to notify you that the Citizen Redistricting
Committee will now meet on Wednesday, October 20, 2021 at 3:00 p.m. MST to
work on adopting State House maps. The committee originally recessed the
Oct 15 meeting until Oct 19, but our demographers had an unavoidable
conflict, so the committee further recessed the Oct 19 meeting to Oct 20.



Dial/log-in information for the Oct 20 meeting will be the same as for the
originally planned Oct 19 meeting and is available at
https://www.nmredistricting.org/meetings-transparency/



The committee must submit written evaluations for every map recommend to
the legislature.  Part of the evaluation is a partisan fairness
evaluation.  The committee hired Professor David Cottrell to evaluate all
maps for partisan fairness.  Measures of partisan fairness will be informed
by  *(i) *prior partisan election data in New Mexico, collected within the
past ten years; *(ii) *a comparison of the committee’s adopted plans for
each districted body against an ensemble of computer-simulated district
plans for each districted entity, so long as those district plans include
constraints imposed by the Voting Rights Act of 1965, as amended, and
identified by the committee; and *(iii) *established standards for
measuring partisan gerrymandering, including the efficiency gap, the
mean-median difference, and partisan symmetry.



Links to maps already selected by the committee are available on the CRC
website, but can be located directly through the following links for your
convenience:



The Congressional maps we adopted were Concepts A

https://districtr.org/plan/43318 Concept H https://districtr.org/plan/55984 and
Concept E as modified https://districtr.org/plan/63307?portal



For State Senate we adopted Senate Concept A-1
https://districtr.org/plan/64078 Senate Concept C
https://districtr.org/plan/45412 and Senate Concept C-1
https://districtr.org/plan/64096



For the State PEC we adopted PEC Concept A https://districtr.org/plan/45565 PEC
Concept C https://districtr.org/plan/45578 and PEC Concept E
https://districtr.org/plan/64470



I’ll be happy to field any questions or coordinate requests for interviews.
Please feel free to email me directly.



Best to you,

Cliff



Cliff W. Gilmore
Executive Communication Consultant
CRC Public Communication Team
Vox Optima
360.335.5246 (m)
https://www.facebook.com/nmredistricting
Twitter: @NMRedistricting
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