Comments on: Redistricting The 50th

By: Greg L

Greg L — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 16:44:31 +0000

Hiring the illegal aliens that then unlawfully reside in my neighborhood, for starters. That’s no specific to Burke, but they’re a great example. Too often the folks that benefit from cheap illegal alien labor leave others to suffer the negative impacts of it.

By: Bwana

Bwana — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 16:34:45 +0000

Greg, what did the folks in Burke do to you to tick you off?

By: long time

long time — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 11:44:37 +0000

so if overcrowded illegal aliens count in the redistricting population count shouldn’t Manasas and Manassas Park each get their own delegate….. :>)

By: Brian

Brian — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 00:49:17 +0000

One more thing, there will still be enough voters left over for 1/2 of a district.

Maybe Lingamfelter’s district could go into Fauquier and then back into PWC around Buckland Mills and Alvey.

By: Brian

Brian — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 20:19:41 +0000

I think you’ve got it in Evergreen and Battlefield going to the 50th.

Signal Hill and Parkside could go to the 51st. Not sure if that is enough to get there numerically.

Keep in mind how close these guys live to each other. Manassas, Buckhall, McCoart & Minnieville(?) are almost connected to each other in the center of the county mass.
A picture helps show this.

http://www.pwcgov.org/docLibrary/PDF/008927.pdf

By: Gnarly

Gnarly — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 07:19:55 +0000

Hopefully, there won’t be a Woodbridge to Fauquier District anymore. Fauquier needs it’s own district and all of western Prince William needs one. It just sucks that these areas get punished for being too GOP…..they have to prop up other areas to make it competitive.

By: Greg L

Greg L — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 03:24:20 +0000

That causes some significant problems, as Buckhall is ripe to go to either the 51st or the 50th. I imagine the speaker wouldn’t be all that displeased if Bob Marshall got drawn into someone else’s district but a lot of folks would have an absolute fit about it.

I guess an alternative is to move Battlefield and Evergreen to the 50th instead of Bennett and Buckhall, like the 50th was back in the 90’s. Not sure how the numbers would work out, but something along those lines would work.

What will happen in the 51st, which needs to pick up a precinct is pretty uncertain, though.

By: Brian

Brian — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 03:17:17 +0000

Bob Marshall lives in Buckhall. Not an option.

By: Greg L

Greg L — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 03:04:23 +0000

As I said in the previous piece, since the census data isn’t available I use the data from the electoral board as a substitute with the understanding that the numbers won’t match precisely. At least the electoral board data is pretty current.

As far as whether the number of voters is statistically lower in proportion of the population than other areas, that’s a possibility but I’m not sure it’s likely to be so significant as to change the results all that much.

If, as you suggest the population figures contain enough nonresident aliens and other persons ineligible to vote that we have a huge disparity in the redistricting results, then I suppose there’s something we need to discuss as a community. After the census and redistricting we’ll know how many registered voters and how many people we have and if we’re way the heck out of whack with other jurisdictions I suppose that’ll start some interesting discussions.

I figure if it turns out that Burke and Arlington aren’t housing their fair share of low income, non-English speaking persons of uncertain legal status we have a right to demand they take some of these folks in, being that they’re so enlightened and kind down there. We’ll even provide the bus tickets.

By: Not Larry Sabato

Not Larry Sabato — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 02:29:49 +0000

Redistricting is done by population, not by voters. I would think you of all people would realize why Jackson Miller’s district has less registered voters than other districts nearby… think about it for a minute.