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Phantom Constituents in Maine’s Regional School Unit 13:
How the Census Bureau’s outdated method of counting prisoners harms democracy
Petition
- Petition for residents of Cushing, Owls Head, Rockland, South Thomaston, St. George, and Thomaston asking the Maine Department of Education Commissioner to declare Regional School Unit 13’s voting system in violation of the principles of “One Person One Vote”.
- Questions & Answers on petition
Advocacy
- Letter from the Prison Policy Initiative and Demos asking the Maine Department of Education Commissioner to declare the RSU 13 apportionment in violation of the one person one vote principles [PDF], June 11, 2009
- Letter to the editor, from Josiah Wilson, July 11, 2009
Coverage
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Policy group calls RSU 13 apportionment unconstitutional, by Shlomit Auciello, Herald Gazette (Rockland, ME), January 15, 2009
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- Feb 18, 2012: Peter Wagner will discuss prison-based gerrymandering on a Race & Voting panel at the RebLaw Conference at 11am at Yale Law School in New Haven CT.
- April 26-28, 2012: Peter Wagner will be speaking about prison-based gerrymandering at the A New Vision of Black Freedom: The Manning Marable Memorial Conference at Columbia Univ. in New York City. Exact day/time TBA.
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