Now that we are studying Congress, time to learn about re-districting and gerrymandering. You will complete the basic level of simulations 1,2, and 3 of the redistricting game. Take a screen shot of the three checkmarks when your plan passes. Submit the 3 approvals in your post. Shrink them down before posting. Include in your post 3 difficulties you had when re-drawing the districts.
http://www.redistrictinggame.org/game.php
1. Stabilizing the population equality
ReplyDelete2. Adding a third republican district
3. Controlling the borders for one party and it affecting the other party.
Raoof Ali
Period 5
1. Controlling population
ReplyDelete2. adding a third district
3. making sure the court case is dismissed
Robert Slaybaugh
4th period
Main difficulties that I found were that I struggled to maintain population balance, keeping the districts continuous, and ensuring that my party had three majorities.
ReplyDeleteAlan Cummins
4th Period
Difficulties:
ReplyDelete1. Meeting population requirements
2. Meeting the party 55% requirement
3. Having all districts share borders without isolated areas
Bryan Ta
4th Period
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ReplyDelete1. Making 3 Democratic Districts popular.
ReplyDelete2. Getting approval from the courts.
3. Having an equal population of 640,000 - 650,000 in each district.
Cameron Walker
Period 4
1. Keeping a Clear Party Majority while redistributing the district voting populations
ReplyDelete2. Taking a relatively evenly distributed voting population and manipulating it to favor another is very hard
3. Even when you can manipulate populations to be evenly balanced and favor one party, the courts effectively block the redistricting
Matthew Whaley
Period 4
Elizabeth Stech
ReplyDeletePeriod 4
1. Making each district equal
2. Making sure that my party was dominant in majority of the districts
3. Making sure that each representatives house was in their district
Difficulties
ReplyDelete- Meeting population balance
- keeping a specific party with the majority
- getting it the approved
Lauryn Weller
4th period
The biggest problem with number one was finding areas that were fairly even in republicans and democrats for population once I had the needed percentages. The biggest difficulty with number 2 was keeping the districts contiguous when looking for the right proportions of population.
ReplyDeleteMitchell Arwine period 4
My difficulties included:
ReplyDelete1. Making a balance for each district's population.
2. Getting the court to approve my plan.
3. Making sure no district was more populous than the others.
Josie Henry
4th period
Ambareen Virani
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1. Keeping the houses in the districts.
2. Keeping the population in its limit.
3. Getting the courts to approve.
Michael Chan
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1.population limit
2.party majority
3.keeping the districts all connected
Difficulties:
ReplyDelete1. Keeping the Republicans happy, especially Connor Servative
2. Getting more Yeas for Democrats
3. Getting my plan not challenged in court
Jun Hin Loi
Period 4
I didn't experience any problems cause im genius. However, the other plebs would experience problems such as, too much land is distributed too a democrat/republican(depending on your party decision), adding a third district for the party of your choice and not pleasing the legislature by getting the correct nays/yeas.
ReplyDeleteRithvik Bommareddy, 4th Period
1. Keeping both parties happy
ReplyDelete2. Getting the court to approve
3. Maintaining population balance
Tom Joseph, 4th Period
1. contingency rules
ReplyDelete2. compactness rules
3. maintaining population balance
Radhika Daru
period 5
Lauren Chamberlin
ReplyDeletePeriod 5
1. Making both parties happy was probably the single hardest aspect to the game.
2. The population, especially in the densely populated, was hard to control via population size because it could jump 20,000 in two clicks.
3. I didn't experience any court ruling or mayor problems, but many of my other friends did. I just tried to keep everyone mostly happy besides one occasion when I had to lower the Republican power. Though the Republicans were hard to work with.
Swati Kundra - 5th
ReplyDelete1. Keeping the numbers even
2. Keeping the Dem. majority while also keeping the pop. even
3. Keeping the majority for all groups while also maintaining the even pop. number
Dominic Kochen
ReplyDeletePeriod 5
1.) Maintaining the population balance was the most difficult thing to do especially when dealing with balancing the parties.
2.) I also found it difficult to achieve the correct party balance without creating districts that were blocked off from their home district and isolated like islands.
3.) Population in the largely populated areas was hard to control because one click was a a large amount of people while in the country and rural areas it was much easier to gain land without killing your numbers.
1. The main difficulty was balancing the numbers based on the density of the population and how they were dispersed.
ReplyDelete2. Same problem as the first but now also trying to get rid of one district that was a majority of the other party.
3. Trying to find a way to add little population while also adding or subtracting Republicans and Democrats.
Julianna Hastreiter
Period 5
Luke Matthews - Period 5
ReplyDelete1.) Distributing the population, especially in the rural areas.
2.) Getting the majority for republicans in the democratic district.
3.) Court approval
Anna Mayzenberg 5th Period
ReplyDelete1) Getting everyone to 55% at an equal population is very difficult because percentages and population don't line up.
2) Getting the court to approve the shapes of the districts.
3) Keeping houses in people's districts
Rendon Reinarz Period 5
ReplyDelete1. I struggled trying to balance population equally in 4 main blocks with rural and urban areas.
2. I struggled adding too many people to the population at once, and it was hard trying to get it back down to 650,000 while still maintaining a majority.
3. I struggled passing the Courts because I made an island or areas too far from their region.
Bryce Del' Homme- period 5
ReplyDelete1) Getting the demographics right to 55% while keeping the population cap in the districts was difficult
2) The law stating that each district couldn't have tendrils made the districting much more difficult.
3) shifting the entire map sometimes to get republicans into their respective zones and vis versa for democrats.
Raina Abraham
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1. struggled getting the population at the right amount
2. struggled making the party prominent in three districts
3. struggled passing the courts
1. Keeping the republicans happy
ReplyDelete2. Equal distribution of population
3. Having a majority in 3 districts
Jenina Bianty 5th
1.Making the democrats and the republicans happy
ReplyDelete2.Keeping the population of the district at around 640,000
3.Getting the democrats to a 55% majority
Janice Wilson
Per.5
1) trying to balance the population equality for all districts
ReplyDelete2) making sure that the Democrats are happy/satisfied in their new districts
3) making sure that each politician's home was within the boundary lines of his or her district
-Anne Dang, 4th period
1. Keep the population of the district around the appropriate size
ReplyDelete2. Trying to get a majority in the three districts
3. Trying to get all the politicians to a 55% majority for their party
Michelle Phan, 5th Period
1. Managing a good percent of Dems/Reps in each district
ReplyDelete2. Keeping the districts equal in size
3. Making sure each district had at least 640,000 people in it
Kale Wicks
4th Period
1. party majority
ReplyDelete2. keeping population around 650,000
3. getting courts to approve
Feba Abraham
Period 4
1. Dividing up the populations
ReplyDelete2. Having the courts to approve.
3. Balancing the percentages of each of the candidates.
Zoheb Khawaja 5th
1. Getting court approval was hard.
ReplyDelete2. Getting democrats to a 55% majority.
3. Trying to get all the populations equal amounts.
pamela gheriafi
period 4
1. Balancing the population for each person
ReplyDelete2. Getting everyones' approval
3. Making sure the districts were still touching each other (couldn't just divide them each in smaller parts)
Cassie De Leon
4th period
1. Trying to meet the population requirements
ReplyDelete2. Trying to keep the districts as "boxy" as possible
3. Trying to get the party majority to reach 55% for each district
Naomi Samuel
Period 5
1. Trying to have the adequate population.
ReplyDelete2. Having a proper Party Majority.
3. Satisfying needs of politicians in the second level and getting approved by congress.
Sainath Krishnamurthy
Period 4
1. Trying to keep the districts together.
ReplyDelete2. Maintaining an equal population
3. Maintaining a relatively 'equal' population of democrats and republicans.
Epstein Jacob
Period 4
1. Having a Majority party.
ReplyDelete2. Maintaining the population while maintain the majority party.
3. Getting approved by congress in third level.
Kriti Bansal
Period 5
1.maintaining party majority was really hard
ReplyDelete2.took a while to attain equal populations
3.court approval
jyotis joy
period 5
Natalie Dye, Period 5
ReplyDeleteMy Three struggles in playing the redistricting game was:
1. keeping the houses inside the districts
2. finding a 55 percent majority for each candidate
3. maintaining correct population margins
1. Keeping a balance between the exact population limit and making sure my party had the majority the whole time
ReplyDelete2. Making sure that there were no "island" districts cause even though it would simply the process, Congress wouldn't allow it
3. Carefully examining the map so all the Republicans were in their senators district in order to ensure the completion of the mission.
Jono Joseph
5th
1. Keeping my party as the majority for the duration of the mission.
ReplyDelete2. Making sure both party members were happy with the decision.
3. Trying to balance the population while maintaining the majority.
Ashel Jaimon
Period 4
1. Trying to give everyone the right population (640,000 - 650,000).
ReplyDelete2. In the second mission, fulfilling the compactness laws to pass the law.
3. Giving each district representatives 55% majority.
Abin Manuel
Period 5
1. Maintaining the right population in each district (640,000-650,000)
ReplyDelete2. Making sure all districts were happy with the decision
3. Giving each district representatives with the 55% majority of their respected parties
Jubin Joseph
Period 5
1. It was difficult to keep the party majority during the mission
ReplyDelete2. Making both parties happy
3. Getting court approval
Shweta Mathews
Period 4
1- It was quite difficult to give everyone the right population while keeping their home district.
ReplyDelete2. The second mission was hard due to the compactness laws and making everyone pleased.
3. Trying to get the democratic approval to 55 percent.
1. only difficulty was going around the small houses.
ReplyDelete2. Getting the 3 parties to meet population requirements and have at least 55% at the same time.
3. managing the boundaries between one party and having an effect on the other.
Steve Raju
5th period
1. the difficult part was getting the same population and satisfying all the party members.
ReplyDelete2. getting the same population and giving them more democrats.
3. getting 55% majority
Ayana Mathew
4th period
1. Satisfying all the representatives
ReplyDelete2. meeting the different requirements the different missions, while not messing up in any area
3. getting the 3rd democratic district in the 2nd mission
Mohammad Ejaz
4th period
1.Getting all of them equally the same
ReplyDelete2. Getting at least 3 party’s to be democrats
3. Keeping all representatives happy
Erin Randle
Period 5
1. satisfying the population quota
ReplyDelete2. turning 3 districts into a specific party
3. keeping the houses in the respective representative's district
Period-4
1. Getting them to the right population
ReplyDelete2. Trying to make sure they match up to their parties
3. Making sure they keep their house
Sarah Sultan
period 4
1. Satisfying each Congressman or woman that held a district
ReplyDelete2. have appropriate population size in each district
3. Getting the right percentage of Democrats and Republicans in a district
Tanmay Shah
Period 4
Sophie Wedgeworth
ReplyDeletePeriod 5
1. Getting the population to balance out
2. Pleasing the courts
3. Trying to get the right amount of Republicans and Democrats in their respective district
Alwyn Joseph 5th period
ReplyDelete1) Getting Court Approval
2) Mission #2, where we needed 3 democratic districts
3) Population balancing
1. Compactness rules
ReplyDelete2. Meeting the population requirements
3. Party majority
Alexis Chan
Period 5
1. Keeping both parties happy
ReplyDelete2. making populations even
3. Waiting on congress to sign the bill with no set backs
David Lowery
Period 4
Alan John/Period 5
ReplyDelete1. Maintaining equal population sizes
2. Adjusting the correct percentage of Democrats/Republicans
3. Maintaining contiguity
Stephen Kelly
ReplyDeletePeriod 4
-Trying to appeal to all the representatives
-trying to make sure population was as even as can be
-making sure your party your party comes out on top without it looking rigged
1. Trying to maintain the population equality.
ReplyDelete2. Making each district contiguous.
3. Keeping each official's home in their district.
Isabel Zhou
Period 4
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