Oliverio: Are shady special interests using niche software to rig election results?

Planning Commissioner Pierluigi Oliverio decries what appears to be the use of special technology by progressive groups to manipulate election results via the redistricting process.

Pierluigi Oliverio:

We need ten city districts of roughly the same size. The law does not direct nor prompt us to create those districts around races, ethnicities, and certainly not around partisan political groups.

It seems abundantly clear that special interest groups have been using software that contains voter information to map out districts whose final population will deliver a preferred political result. And not to keep established neighborhoods together, which is what redistricting is supposed to do--by law.
I wasn't in the room when this map was created, but it definitely resembles the oddly-formed gerrymandered maps we have seen on PBS documentaries.

It's important to remember that there are three maps under consideration. One created by the Redistricting Commission, which roughly keeps districts the way they currently are with some tweaks. Second, the Community Map created by a grassroots group of residents that also roughly keep current districts and groups in tact. And the third map, the so-called Unity map, is an extremist effort that dislocates and relocates by far the most people. Notably, the so-called Unity Map received the fewest votes of any of the three maps at the Redistricting Commission. .--Pierluigi Oliverio, SJ Planning Commissioner

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