Next Meeting - May 24, 2012
Redrawing of California’s Voting Districts

ButterCup Grill, 660 Ygnacio Valley Road,Walnut Creek, CA

5:30 PM  - Registration & Networking
6:00 PM -  Dinner and Program
 

Redrawing of California’s Electoral Districts
Karin Mac Donald - Director of Statewide Database, Berkeley Law, Center for Research

The Statewide Database (SWDB) is the redistricting database for the  state of California. In 2001, these data were used for state legislative and local redistrictings following the 2000 Census as mandated by law. Data collection and processing for the redistricting are ongoing tasks  conducted over a ten year period of time, starting with the collection  of the census at the beginning of each decade. With each election  between redistrictings, updated data sets are available as a free,  public resource as soon they are processed. Currently the data are being prepared for the 2011 redistricting.
The Statewide Database consists of the Statements of Vote (SOV) and the Statements of Registration (SOR) from California's 58 counties for each statewide election since 1992, merged to data from the decennial census.

We encourage people to make their own maps with our data, either with  their own GIS (Geographic Information System) or our computers. We will  assist you as much as possible and we will take orders for customized  maps. You can create Statewide, County, Senate, Assembly, and  Congressional District levels filled with various data such as blocks  and street labels, census, and/or registration information.

While we are the State of California's "Redistricting Database" we do  NOT draw lines. Our purpose is to provide data readily to ALL who wish  to use them. While some of our users may intend to use our data to draw  their own plans, we do NOT provide instruction on drawing lines, nor  will we draw them for anyone.

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