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democrat insider
We, the democrats control the Independent Redistricting Commision, suckers. We gerrymandered this map badly so we, the democrats, will win by creating districts with a large majority republicans by packing them together in a district and creating districts with a narrow democrat majority. We violated municipal and county boundaries to do this deed. Thanks Mr. Eid and Ms. Szeztela, both "independents" who are democrats and we have more democrats posed as republicans on the commission also. We win suckers enjoy our "cruel" rule.
ROSLYN GRAFSTEIN
As the Mayor of Madison Heights I would like an explanation as to why this sliver has been annexed from the rest of the city. If this division was not intentional, please have it corrected or supply the reasoning as to why this one precinct has been excluded.
Michael Kole
What ever happened to simplicity? We have a mobile society, people move when they don't like certain things in the area. Continuing to redraw these lines, only chases voters that have abandoned their previous district.
This district 31 represents what? or What's left?
leroy houston
This is the most unfair map.
leroy houston
This is the most unfair map.
Martin Zmiejko
Of the maps, this is the most fair House map.
Robert Noble
Please explain how the needs of the city Detroit combine with the needs of suburban cities? It doe not and to do so it makes gerrymandering front and center thus giving the Democrats a one sided advantage for Madison Hts and Royal Oak. This map needs to be challenged in court it is one sided and vile.
Dan Wholihan
This district is awful and there's no reason for it. My district looks like a middle finger and the district next to me looks like somebody smoking a pipe. Waterloo belongs with Jackson. Genoa belongs with Brighton (or maybe Howell). Hamburg belongs with Brighton and Pinckney. They don't belong with Ann Arbor City. US-23 doesn't even go to Hamburg or Genoa Twp.
unbiased observer
Message for Tyler Dykstra---50/50 partisan balance is wishful thinking. This map is gerrymandered to gift the democrat party a guaranteed majority against the wishes of the majority of the people.
Heidi R Warrington
Well done.
Heidi R Warrington
Maintaining most of the previous 43rd District is wise, and the area is a community that truly one that works being represented together.
Tyler Dykstra
Holland and Zeeland are a continuous community with very close historical and cultural connections. Why are they cut off from each other? Are these borders designed to represent the citizens of coherent communities, or are they designed to create a 50/50 partisan balance? I think the latter.
Andrew Clark
Looks great, Ypsi as a standalone is a great instead of lumping with A2.
John Considine
This is an equitable map
eliot scott
breaking up ann arbor in what is basically a pie chart is a wonderful idea. it creates more competitive districts where legislators will need to work for both urban and rural folks and hopefully reduce partisan extremism. Thank you for your efforts to salvage our democracy!
Patricia L ORorke
It seems odd that the city of Ann Arbor is split among four state congressional districts. Ann Arbor is a politically active community. Imagine having to figure out how to contact which representative is representing each part of the City. We won't be happy with this new redistricting.
Rosalind J Cox
All of these maps have Republican bias, but this one is the best of the worst which in not really a good thing as we want fair maps mot just less unfair ones. Thanks.
Michael Malis
As far as I can tell, none of the State House maps preserve the Grandmont-Rosedale communities in one district. These five communities work together toward common interests in their area, and have a long and documented history of community advocacy. Splitting them up would lessen their impact, and would be detrimental to the west side of Detroit. I urge you to redraw the maps to preserve North Rosedale Park, Rosedale Park, Grandmont, Grandmont #1, and Minock Park in one district.
Mary Etta Kreklau
And I thought nothing could be worse than what was done in 2010 - our community of beaches along Lake Erie are divided into (3) legislative districts. This so severely hinders the Community of Interest mandate it's ridiculous - you were looking for precincts to move into other districts and stripped Frenchtown Township and divided not only Monroe County into 4 districts; but divided Frenchtown into 3 districts and stripped the communities along Lake Erie too in order to dilute their influence with the power companies - how you enjoy whatever monetary benefits you get from these decisions while the rest of us suffer.
Tim Mauro-Vetter
Matt Maddock is still in my State House District!!! Matt is a solid conservative patriot who represents me very well.
Patrice Matujec
Good grief, Ann Arbor is split among four state congressional districts. There should be community cohesion. This map totally dilutes the Ann Arbor community vote.
Peter Bane
All the MIchigan House maps give unfair partisan advantage to the minority party, which is the MAIN problem the MCIRC was instituted to fix. Under any of these maps, a minority of voters would gain a majority of representatives in the MI house. Hickory is the least bad of the set you have presented. Please keep working to improve it. Partisan fairness is possible, as demonstrated by some of the Senate and US Congress maps, though only a few of those.
Thomas Nemcek
This is the most Gerrymandered map I have ever seen! East Grand Rapids and Kentwood are URBAN communities and don't belong with the Suburban/Semi-Rural Cascade Township. You are violating your "Compactness" Rule, Community of Interest Rule, and most likely Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act as well! You are disenfranchising the more sparsely populated township areas by combining them with the densely populated Urban Areas of Kentwood and East Grand Rapids which should be a part of the City of Grand Rapids.
Carolyn M Mayne
Keep Midland County whole
Ryan Quinn
It's about time that the Port Huron are state congressional map be done fairly. While it will still likely lean in one direction, it's not the gerrymandered mess we have had for the past 10 years.
Joseph Lopez
I lived in this district and this map does not represent the northern half of Godwin Heights. Gerrymandered with the City of GR does not represent this district, which has vastly different needs than the city of Wyoming does. Precinct 1 of the City of Wyoming should have been with District 83, not 82.
Barbara M Trollman
This is better than what we've had for years. Our majority blue state of Michigan has been governed by the minority party since the 80s and it is time that we had a fair chance at gaining Dem. seats in Lansing. This is a more competitive map, even though it, along with the congressional redistricted map, still gives the edge to the Republican party. The Republican gerrymandering has been ridiculous for decades. Fairness is long past overdue.
Cynthia Richardson
Way to go Commission. The WORST map for Waterloo Township. Thank you for NOT Listening to the citizens who came out in droves and commented on maps.
David Heyza
Its not perfect but better than if the legislature drew them. Michigan is 50-50 and should be drawn like it is.
Jillyn Schultz
Milan should be included in the Ann Arbor area district. Most of the people in Milan CITY have moved from the Ann Arbor/Ypsi area and still work there. It's a bedroom community for Ann Arbor and the cultural and political beliefs within the city represent that, not those of rural border counties or the backwoods along I-94 toward the airport and south. We have more in common with Saline and Pittsfield than Ida, Sumpter, and Belleville.
Janet Goldwasser
I urge you to spend more time on the district maps for the Michigan State House. None of these meet the criteria for partisan fairness. If you must choose one of the proposed Michigan House maps, then choose Hickory.
frances lichtman
Of the MI House maps posted for 45-day review, Hickory is the least partisan. If time permits, however, this map has room for improvement. Thank you for your conscientious work.
Patricia McCoin
This is the best choice in terms of partisan fairness. None of the choices seem to be what was envisioned when the voters approved the redistricting committee.
Tim Brewer
I am not in favor of this map. Once again it seems to be slanted to certain viewpoints.
Gail Lozen
A district that divides Roseville would not be able to properly address the unique economic challenges, infrastructure needs and interests of Roseville's residents. We are a community of interest with a proud history. It is a community that has a significant population of older residents, as well as similar demographical and socioeconomic characteristics with a strong sense of togetherness and community. The proposed map dilutes and minimizes the importance Roseville has, as parts of Roseville would be split into two different districts, and would be anchored to different municipalities with significantly different needs and interests than Roseville. Roseville has a strong working-class background that deserves fair representation by its state house member. Roseville is a city that is around 5 square miles and is a major transit area that is serviced by interstates, I-94 and I-696, and two major state highways (M-1 Gratiot/M-97 Groesbeck). Roseville has created a downtown and has successfully redeveloped the Macomb Mall. We have heavy industrial and manufacturing areas along M-97 Groesbeck (which goes through similar communities of Warren and Clinton Township) that are in need of redevelopment and rejuvenation. The proposed map does a disservice to the community by dividing our voice and placing us in districts where Roseville’s needs will not be addressed or be an afterthought. Any map should include the entirety of the city of Roseville in a state house district, which none of the current maps do. Please make changes to this map to keep the community of interest together.
Ilene Michelle Sommers
For US Congress, please support Birch V2; For MI Senate, please support Linden; for MI House, please keep working, there are no fair maps for the MI House. Thanks.
Kathy A Swartz
Hickory does not keep communities of interest that would be sharing resources together. Pine is a better option.
Marie Colombo
This is the best of the MI Congressional maps, although it lacks partisan fairness by giving the majority of seats to the minority of voters. IF you cannot produce a better map, I hesitantly support this one.
Barbara A Conley
best for partisan fairness and communities of interest. Keeps Leelanau and Traverse City together, as they now function.
M Dame
I am very disappointed in the State Rep maps presented. I have to agree with SOOO many people who stated the maps have been gerrymandered to falsely promote “political fairness” while at the same time dismissing “communities of interest”. This experiment in “redistricting” is proving to be a farce. I have to agree with the masses who believe your prioritizing process has been unconstitutional and I hope these maps are challenged in court.
Joan Fifelski
thank you for all your hard work I think this map does a good job of keeping communities of interest together like the airport area in with Grand Rapids, Wyoming almost all one district, Hispanic community together, etc.
Scott William Miller
Keep Midland County whole.
Dennis Quehl
It is noteworthy to note that there are very few dislikes in this district. Some of them are stating that Midland belongs with the larger metropolitan cities and not with Midland County. SO very wrong and actually against many of the guidelines for COI, Compactness, town and city boundaries, and contiguity. Please support this map and the citizens that overwhelming support this map.
Mary J Quehl
Please keep Midland County whole.
Gaye Terwillegar
Midland County whole
Dave Cottrill
For District 7, I like that the Oakland and Wayne County residents and State Reps will need to talk to one another, as they actually do, to seek solutions. Hickory is a good combination of similar interested communities on both sides of 8 Mile.
Chris Moultrup
Keep Midland County and City together. This is a good map.
TJQ
Please reject this map. It is not fair and does not represent my communities of interest. Livingston County should not be lumped in with Washtenaw. Bad Map!
Leslie C Baker
I am strongly opposed to the current Hickory map. I was opposed to it early on, and I'm very disappointed to see what's being proposed. I do not want to be associated with Ann Arbor in any way. Although I graduated from The University of Michigan, I have very little in common with the residents of Ann Arbor and rarely go there. They're interests and lifestyles are very different from mine and most of us who live in Livingston County. Please do not clump Genoa and Hamburg in with Ann Arbor. We're on two different ends of the spectrum. The City of Brighton, the township of Brighton, Genoa, Green Oak, and Hamburg should stay together. Please reconsider the current Hickory map and allow the Brighton area to remain intact.
CQ
This map does not appear fair and it does not represent my communities of interest. Combining Livingston and Washtenaw is totally at odds with communities of interest. Total disaster!
Mary Cooney
this seems to be the fairest distribution
Ronald Kumon
I support this map for keeping Novi mostly together with a few other neighboring communities to the east and west with which the city shares common interests.
Brenda Guest
I like this map as it keeps Midland County whole
Gina Favors
While I don't agree with these maps, I do believe that this map (Hickory) is possibly the closest to something like "fair?"
Nomi Joyrich
This is the best of all the proposed House maps
Patrick Smith
This is my preferred map
Lauren Woolsey
This is a good map overall. Thank you for keeping communities of interest together. The areas of the Grand Rapids metro that share common needs and services are put together in districts for this map, rather than with rural areas. This will give me and my neighbors fairer representation in Lansing.
Karlyn Rapport
This map designated as Hickory seems the most fair
Sarah Woolsey
I really appreciate the commission listening to the voters in West Michigan. The Hickory map does a good job of creating a fair map that considers communities of interest in the Grand Rapids metro area. Communities of color have better representation - especially for the Hispanic community along the Wyoming and Grand Rapids border and the strong African American populations in District 82. The townships that share services, needs, and school districts with the metro area are combined with the metro cities. The political bias is also lower in this map, which I appreciate as part of the commission's goals to have fair maps for all Michiganders.
Brad Blasy
Like this map
Joel Ombry
Overall this is a good map. Thanks for combining East Grand Rapids and Kentwood as they are similar suburbs. Keeping the Hispanic community (Wyoming/GR) together is another plus. Thanks for your hard work on this and being responsive to feedback.
Mark W. LaChey
The Hickory map best keeps the SW Michigan Lakeshore community of interest intact. Thank you for listening to our concerns and comments. Please adopt this map for state house districts.
Sara Fink
I am adding a comment urging the commission to do more to create fairer MI House maps. HickoryHandled11 does slightly better than the maps open to comment because it is the ONLY one which is less biased against Democratic voters. I read Julianne Pastula's memo which argued that proportional partisan representation is not required; but all the proposed House maps so far, except the modified Hickory, do show consistent bias in NEVER giving a majority of voters the majority of representatives. I am not a lawyer but I am an English language expert, and her claims look like equivocating, specious arguments to me.
tawny gapinski
District 47 is best represented in Linden , Palm maps. It is also reasonably partisan and equally . Cartography 101. It shows the basemap images as being the origin of Ann Arbor , and is therefore most accurate in accordance with voter rights. Hickory underscores population issues but checks indirectly the urban-rural issues shown in DISTRICT 33, or 47 as is shown in MAP 17 Linden-PALM . The glory of being the underdog voting district (under Detroit) is that Northville and Howell are both notoriously 'lesser districts, currently. All *things* being repairable only by consolidating lines of latitude and longitude, orientating the larger districts ann arial view to the East, composes well a webbing concept map and actualized new districting . It help in our 'understand of the mortality rates of non -aging citizens too. ( Hey maybe matching democrat versus Republican numbers in Senate-House maps out too but here in Michigan "territory " the county lines are drawn out beyond (ohio ) ) around green areas. It is a more pertinent line draw to GO! Palm. I LOVE MAPS too. Covid/a disease [sad face] necessitated sitting and looking at a computer , voting encourages standing up and growing in voice inn democracy, Good Luck! LInden-JHickory . Eventually shape and the databanks on this voiced UP the future and present at the local for federal elections without me even having to equalize via maps and GIS . thanks for the insights folks. We see the value added.
Donna Stache
This map is the most fair representation of Michigan voters
Laurie Williams
Please fix Hickory to reflect partisan fairness. This seems to be the best of the House maps, but Hickory is unfair in that 53D to 57R gives the majority of seats to the minority of voters.
The Redistricting Commission should get back to work to fix all House districts, as none of them offer fair representation, given that each proposed House district map manages to provide for the majority of seats to go to the minority of voters. Additionally, Detroit-area voters are left out in the cold with no possibility of electing their own candidates. Please work on ALL House districts to more fairly represent the voters in Michigan!!
Nancy Jenkins-Arno
As the County Commissioner for the western side of Lenawee County, I was very disappointed to see the City of Hudson (part of my County Commission district) tagged onto the District 35 State House map. The new district is made up of Hillsdale and Branch counties. It looks as if the City of Hudson is an afterthought. I'm afraid that is how Hudson will be represented in the State House over the next 10 years if these maps go into effect. Please reconsider including the City of Hudson in District 34 that covers most of Lenawee County where Hudson is located. Thank you.
Nancy Jenkins-Arno
Three maps, no choices. Every state house map (Pine, Magnolia, and Hickory) draws Lenawee County exactly the same. Each map divides the county in four ways. They strip out smaller populated townships (Macon, Ridgeway, and Deerfield) on the east side, and the small city of Hudson on the west side. Hudson is tagged onto the east end of a district that includes two whole counties. Given how the maps have been drawn, I cannot see how these areas of our county will be represented well. Please keep working on these maps so that all our Lenawee County residents have good representation. Thank you.
Carole Murphy
HIckory is the best map for the state House. However, it does not reflect partisan fairness. Given the Democrats won the presidency in 2020 by 2.78%, plugging in the data to the house maps should reflect that such that an election with the same party votes should show the Democrats winning the state House by 2.78%. Given this does not happen means the Republicans have an unfair advantage in the House. Please improve Hickory for partisan fairness.
Larry Schuelke
This map isn't too bad and keeps Midland County together pretty well. Anything but the Szetela map for the Michigan State house.
Judy Ratkos
This map seems most fair but changes should be made to better balance the the number of people in each district to get closer to the target number per district.
Mary Ann Allore
This map divides Jackson County into 4 separate state districts! Please keep to the promises made to us back in 2018 – follow the Communities of Interest submitted by the people of Michigan.
Kelly Schrubba
This map is perhaps the best of the bad. Please keep working to reflect bipartisan/non partisan so the State can be strong. It's what we voted for in 2018. Thank you.
Kelly Schrubba
Again, this map has many positives. But it still is splitting my vote in Wixom to areas south and west of me and diffuses the vote.
Kelly Schrubba
This is part of the map that does not make sense. It is diffusing the voters' rights.
Kelly Schrubba
First, thank you for the hard work. However, as this map has some good points, it is still partisan with communities split. All the maps have Republican bias, but this one is the best of the bad.
Maps that are less unfair, are still unfair. We want maps that are actually fair. It's what we voted for in 2018.
Andrew Webb
Challenging to come up with a balanced House map, but Hickory seems to work best. Not wild about breaking up Allegan County, but upon reflection I think this grouping works.
Rebecca S Smith
Thank you for keeping Midland whole. Would like to see Gladwin included but other than that, this is a good map.
Janine Iyer
Horrible map. REJECT.
Lisa Blazevski
I believe Roseville should be kept whole in any redistricting map because it is a community of interest that shares common socioeconomic and demography. Two precincts in northern Roseville have very little in common with Chesterfield Township or Harrison Township and yet this map unnecessarily splits the city.
Lisa Blazevski
I believe this map should keep Roseville whole and not split up the city of Roseville into two different House seats. The two most northern precincts (13 Mile and 14 Mile Road between Kelly Road and I-94) in Roseville shares similar political, economic and sociological characteristics with the rest of Roseville, that in this map that goes into a neighboring district. Strong consideration should be given to keeping the city of Roseville in the same State House district. Roseville differs vastly from Harrison Township or Chesterfield Township in socioeconomic and other factors. Roseville would benefit staying together as a community of interest. The two precincts in Roseville that goes all the way to Chesterfield shares very little in common with Harrison Township or Chesterfield Township. However, Roseville does shares many services with its neighboring communities. For example, Roseville and Fraser share a district court and have similar county commission lines. Roseville also municipal services with neighboring communities such as Fraser, Eastpointe and St. Clair Shores and have partnership agreements and mutual aid with its northern neighbor Clinton Township. Roseville also shares common school districts with other communities (for example, Fraser Public Schools and Roseville Community Schools have buildings in Roseville) and shared common government services such as Parks and Recreation (Roseville and Eastpointe) and emergency dispatch services (Roseville, St. Clair Shores and Fraser). Previous iterations of the state house district have had the entire city of Roseville as its anchor and has include parts of Fraser, St. Clair Shores, Warren and Eastpointe in Macomb County in various forms. The seat has always been in Macomb County. Each city shares common economic, social and other interests as inner ring suburban communities looking to reinvent itself. Under this proposed map, it would be unfair to separate Roseville into two differing districts, minimizing its collective voice in the legislative process, especially with municipalities like Harrison Township and Chesterfield Township which have vastly different needs.
Kurt H Schindler
This map is the most fair of those being considered. It should be adopted. But there is still room for improvement. For example, looking at districts 32 and 36: District 36 overshoots the target population by 5,293 (2%). District 32 undershoots the target population by -3,388 (-1.28%). Then look at Manistee County, where the east portions of the county are in district 36 and the remainder in district 32. That part of the county in district 36 has a population about 5,000+/- Moving that part of the county to district 32 would result in both districts being closer to the target population.
Frances Wallace
Please adopt the Hickory house map. It does a good job keeping communities of interest together and has better partisan fairness scores than the other proposed house maps.
James Cameron Hart
I don't believe this map follows the spirit of fairness and was designed with gerrymandering in mind. It appears this map promotes special interest groups rather than communities of interest. Please do not use this map.
Connie
This map has the least unfair partisan scores. The Constitution requires that partisan fairness be prioritized.
Joan Long
Regarding State House map Hicory - I approve of this map because it appears to be a fair map overall.
Jamie Rykse
most fair house map
Kathleen Thorrez
These house maps divide up Jackson County into 4 separate house seats. This makes representation very complicated on who represents your needs and having like minded areas of interest.
Karen LynnLindholm@comcast.net
No to this.
Michelle Wilbur
I dislike this map as it breaks up our community.
J Michael Dizer
This map makes sense because it keeps Midland County whole.
Aaron Majorana
This is a good map because it keeps Midland County whole. As a Midland resident who regularly travels to Saginaw for work and to Bay City, Midland has nothing in common with Saginaw or Bay City. Midland County deserves a unified voice.
Stokes Baker
For the past 30 years, Harper Woods has been manipulated to support one party or the other. Originally, it was placed in Grosse Pointe (Old District 1) to ensure Republican control. When Representative Tim Bledsoe flipped the 1st District to the Democrats, the next redistricting cycle shoved Harper Woods into Detroit to reduce the number of Democratically controlled seats. This map places Harper Woods (heavily Democratic) together with St. Clair Shore (largely Republican). This is going to be a swing district. For Harper Woods, I feel this is a fair map.
Blake G
Keep Saint Clair Shores together!
Aaron Thoms
I Love how nicely this district fits Port Huron, Marysville, and Lakeport together, it even matches the places I regularly go to!
Carole J Chi
I'm in favor of the HICKORY House Map as it has the lowest Republican bias of the three collaborative maps and the most majority-Black districts. It still could be improved, but I know there are time constraints on you. Please pick the HICKORY House Map for Michigan. Thank you!
Cheryl Depner
This is a terrible map. Superior Township is Washtenaw county not Oakland county. We pay taxes for our county not Oakland county, We do not share shopping areas, roads, churches or schools with anyone in this area. I reject this map. We cannot be fairly represented.
AeYanna L Yett
This map does NOT accurately represent my community. The Black community within this district is poorly represented, to say the very least.
Sara Weertz
The new Hickory version should be rejected because it splits up my neighborhood (East English Village) along my very stree: Yorkshire Rd. This means one side of the street would be in District 9 and the other side in District 11.
Jenn Slack
This appears to be the most fair House map that is nonpartisan and balanced. Please vote for this map.
Helen Harms
This map provides for the best balance in regard to partisan fairness. Overall there is still a Republican bias wo this map and, indeed, all the State House maps.
Philip Zazove
This map is okay, the best off the group. I think it bears a bit more redoing - goal to group like areas together in an equitable way that has reasonable boundaries, and reflects the citizens of the state. This one, although the best, still has issues as so many off the other comments raise and could be MUCH better with slight modifications.
Drew Wagener
NOPE!
Hickory's creator should find something else to do in their time...
Connie
This is the least unfair map. Partisan fairness must be prioritized, per the Constitution.
Daniel Schifko
This map doesn't properly represent communities of interest well.
Jonathan R. Hague
I support this as the best choice so far for the House.
Kelly Weaver
Districts 100 and 101 are still badly drawn. What is the point of separating the eastern portion of Lake County from the rest of the county, only to cut through the eastern part of Mason County to make up for it? The Lake County break is on township lines but cuts the village of Luther in half. This is a community of 300 people.
Bethany A Rocho
This is the most fair house map!
JoEllen Rudolph
I like the Hickory map the best for the House map. It seems the most fair.
Allison Zimpfer
Yes to Hickory-- this is the most fair House map.
Rachelle M Smit
Please keep Allegan County intact. Breaking this many lines does not represent our district and clearly is done for political gain.
Brett Meteyer
Roberta Urbani
Please approve this House map. It is the most fair of the options, and keeps most of the waterfront Downriver communities together.
John Leon
VOTE YES on Hickory! Keeping these cities and Townships together along the river makes historical sense and a compact district. I love it!!
Jacquelyn Kendall
This looks fair.
Alex Weddon
Dislike Hickory. way to spread out, miles of difference between communities. not a lot in common. weird map.
Rebecca Mayer
I dislike this map as it combines rural Waterloo Township and Jackson County with the City of Ann Arbor.
Nancy Flanagan
This is the best of the bunch. Changes in my district make a lot of sense.
Kathleen M Kaczynski
This is the fairest plan
James McConnell
This map is more fair than others.
Donna Bowen
Most fair map.
Justin Harris
This is the fairest map. Please vote for this map.
Beth Freeman
This Plan is similar to other 2 proposed Plans in many respects & is my preference of 3 proposed Plans. It is better than Plan Pine on population equality & VRA compliance. This proposed Plan could be redrawn to score within a normal range in a larger class of accepted measures of partisan fairness, perhaps decreasing chance of successful legal challenges.
Jack Ellis
Still much work to be done.....it's that tricky issue of partisan fairness for all. There has been some improvement, but please keep working!!!
Dee J Maybee
This map should be rejected. It is not fair and does not represent the communities of interest.
Roger M Harms
I like the fairness of this map for Michigan, for Black people in their districts, and for all of us. The way this map is set up for the Dexter area is good.
Paul Marsh
Best, least partisan map.
Suzanne Perkins
This is the best house map. It could still be improved on partisan fairness. Next vote has submitted some ideas for making it more partisan fair.
Stephen Kemsley
Much less vote packing in this map compared to others. More balanced and representative of the state overall.
Andrew Lorenz
Hickory is the only fair State House Map. Hickory gives the voting majority the best chance to gain the house majority, which honors the goal of "One Person, One Vote". Please adopt Hickory. The other 2 maps just perpetuate minority rule and gerrymandering.
Kelly Bertin
This is the most fair map.
Katie Lynne French
This is by far the most fair map
Beth Doherty
This is the better map of the the 3 proposed.
Michael Hertz
Hickory still does not achieve partisan fairness as it continues to award the majority of seats to a minority of voters. You must correct this before adopting it.
CHRISTINA A Verkest
most fair of them all.
Scott Shemansky
This is by far the most fair map that I have seen. Please vote on this one to respect us under-represented folks in rural areas. Let's stop letting this state be ruined by the urban corruption that exists in the big cities and which is trying to take over Lansing.
Scott Shemansky
This is by far the most fair map that I have seen. Please vote on this one to respect us under-represented folks in rural areas. Let's stop letting this state be ruined by the urban corruption that exists in the big cities and which is trying to take over Lansing.
Dana S Houston-Jones
Please vote in favor of this map it is a fair one.
Kaitlyn M Eaton
This is a fair map.
Daryl Biallas
This is a fair map. Please vote in favor of this one.
Carly Moran
This map is better than some, but still divides Jackson. Also is a bit odd how the neighboring district snatches Hudson from Hillsdale County. I prefer Magnolia.
Janet Armil
The fairest House map.
Paul Torek
The best-balanced state house map. This gives the voting majority the best chance to control the house majority.
Edward Saunders
Good start, but statewide, this still has a large partisan bias that does not reflect the total population of the state and will adversely affect statewide elections away from the majority view.
Catherine Wade
This is the least awful map. Please terminate the Oakland County House districts at 8 Mile. Further, please give Detroit more representation.
Madhurima Das
most fair house map
Stephen Sadlier
This is a bad map. Please keep Troy together.
Richard Lenski
This map is better than some of the alternatives, although it still seems to unfairly favor the republican party.
Ronald Martin Lacher
None of the State House maps achieve the partisan fairness scores they should because they all favor Republicans by more than 5%. Every district drawn for the Midland House is heavily biased in favor of Republicans instead of giving the area a competitive district. If I have to choose between the 3 biased maps, the Hickory map is the most fair. Even if I’m unable to have a competitive district for Midland, I want the rest of the state to have a good map. Hickory keeps all the alterations made to the Detroit area to increase majority-minority districts and improve the representation of communities. This map also has the lowest lopsided margin. Hickory is the best map of the 3 for the state. I would be willing to sacrifice a fair map for Midland if it means a more representative map for the state of Michigan. Thank you for listening and giving the people of Mid-Michigan fair districts to ensure fair elections.
Melitz Mike
Dislike
Nina Dodge Abrams
The house maps are bad. 8 Mile Rd is ignored for SE Oakland, when 8 Mile Boundry has served Oakland and Wayne Counties well. Combining Districts 5, 6, 7, and 8, then re-dividing this area horozontally will better serve the neighborhoods. Royal Oak Township and Oak Park are not divided. There would be two minority majority house seats.
Thomas DeGrand
Most fair map
Samuel Firke
The best and most fair of the state house maps. I appreciate that this does not "pack" Ann Arbor and render my vote meaningless.
Jane Lacher
None of the State House maps achieve the partisan fairness scores they should because they all favor Republicans by more than 5%. Every district drawn for the Midland House is heavily biased in favor of Republicans instead of giving the area a competitive district. If I have to choose between the 3 biased maps, the Hickory map is the most fair. Even if I’m unable to have a competitive district for Midland, I want the rest of the state to have a good map. Hickory keeps all the alterations made to the Detroit area to increase majority-minority districts and improve the representation of communities. This map also has the lowest lopsided margin. Hickory is the best map of the 3 for the state. I would be willing to sacrifice a fair map for Midland if it means a more representative map for the state of Michigan. Thank you for listening and giving the people of Mid-Michigan fair districts to ensure fair elections.
Lois Koel
This appears to be the fairest map.
Julie Kelly
This map is a fair representation.
Erin Seipke-Brown
This is the fairest option being presented.
Krista Anderson
This is an improvement and definitely the most fair and bipartisan House map. Thank you. Please vote for this one.
Donald Cooper
Best of the choices
Kathryn Carolan
Good map
Karen Zyczynski
Keeping communities together, rather than splitting them in half or in thirds, helps maintain a sense of community. It helps maintain that feeling of working together toward common goals. We don't want to divide people, we need to bring them together to solve common issues.
Jacob Oaster
Nothing is perfect, but this map seems to be a fair representation.
Kent Mallow
I approve of this map.
Virginia Gibson
Seems fair
Scott Warrow
This map is the most fair map for representation in the House. If you elect any map from the options, choose this one
Charles Hodgman
This map has the best partisan fairness scores of the House maps. It is much better than Pine.
david Berry
This map looks like the Lenawee Co. will now be in four districts. The typical "rural" area folks might see this map as a splitting up of the community. The MAGNOLIA map is the best.
Sreela Datta
I wish there were objective / mathematical criteria for redistricting instead of trying to make the map fair on partisan lines.
Katharine Shishkovsky
Out of all the House District maps, Hickory is the most fair, although not fair enough. Please work harder to achieve partisan fairness in these maps! That is what the people of Michigan voted for in 2018. And again, despite my comments in person, on Zoom, and in these written comments, please leave the people of the City of Detroit with the representation they need, and leave Livonia in one House District. You should NOT have left the drawing of Districts in Southeast Michigan to the end. It is the most populous portion of Michigan and should have been drawn first.
Partha Goswami
Good map!
Mark Hackbarth
This seems to be the most fair map.
Glenda Arlene Stainback
I feel that all of the House maps are bad because they all lack partisan fairness, but this is probably the least unfair. Oak Park should not be split and Royal Oak Township should most definitely NOT be split. It's so small to begin with and splitting it in half just isn't right.
Kathi Harris
Keeping the South Grand Rapids central city together as a house district number 82 on the Hickory House map is very positive step forward. This area consists of the main collection of minority underserved people in the Grand Rapids areas – mostly African American and People of Color. This would be the first time that a representative dedicated to this area would be elected. Thank you for creating House districts in the Grand Rapids area that keep the different ethnic groups together. Also, the is the fairest of the maps for Michigan overall in terms of seats compared to votes, however, it still is not equitable compared to the statewide voting percentages.
Stephen Stackable
This map is good as it keeps Midland city and county in the same district.
Dominique Muse
This map is more fairly drawn.
Allen R Wolf
This map is the fairest map and allows for the most Black majority districts.
Mitali Chakrabarti
Fair map
Christopher Pratt
I support this map. It is much more balanced.
Doug Warczynski
I support this map as it seems to represent and group like areas together, indicating people with similar needs and wishes for their representation.
Seth Furlow
Decent...better than what we have.
Greg Duenow
Good
Mary B Blair
This is a fair map! I advocate for this to be approved.
Justin Barney
This is a sensible division between Kalamazoo, its surrounding area, and Portage.
Nicole Gillies
This map is accurate and fair.
Mark Hoffman
This is the most fair House map.
Judy Daubenmier
The Hickory map is the most fair of the House maps. I like the combination of parts of Livingston County with Washtenaw. Many residents commute to work there or for school or health care or entertainment or shopping. It is a natural association. About 70 percent of Livingston County residents commute out of the county for jobs so we have multiple communities of interest. The district that includes part of western Oakland County also makes sense since many people commute eastward as well. And Green Oak shares South Lyon school district with them as well the South Lyon mailing address and shopping. It is a community of interest as well. This is the best map among the collaborative maps.
Margaret R Orao
The included communities of Kentwood, Cascade, and East Grand Rapids have a great deal in common and would be better represented by this district map.
Barbara Miller
This map seems to be the most fair for Novi voters.
Tamara Constantyn
This is a more rational map, paying more respect to population distribution and demographics.
Carmela Finn
This map is much fairer than the other options. We want an even playing field, and this is about as close as I've seen so far.
Murray A Gorchow
This is the best of the collaborative maps. It does the best with VRA compliance and with COI and with partisan fairness.
Elizabeth Bonner
I prefer Magnolia
katrhleen curell
I hope that the Szetala map will be the one to get voted on and adopted for our state house map. It has the best partisan fairness scoresThank you Commissioner Szetala! you were going for a map that honors ALL voters.
If Hickory is adopted it will be a distant second due to the partisan lean toward another safe seat for the Midland GOP
Tim Roraback
Hickory appears to be the closest to fair. The GOP voters are overrepresented the least on this map.
Sharon R Baseman
I still feel that all of the House maps are bad, but this is probably the least bad. Oak Park should not be split and Royal Oak Township should most definitely be split. It's so small to beging with and splitting it in half just isn't right.
Brian Dunphy
This map is the fairest of the available versions.
Sue Ross
Appears to offer the fairest solution for most people.
John Anthony Pettinato
prefer this map/fair
Timothy J Quinn
Please do not use this map. It is not fair and does not represent the communities of interest.
Jennifer Bidwell
This is the fairest map for the House and urge you to support it. I appreciate the tremendous work you have done to make our system fairer.
Jim and Jill Crissman
Hickory is the best of the 3 collaborative State House maps but it is still biased in favor of Republicans.
Szetela's House map is better on partisan fairness. I like her Bay City/Midland City district because it would give us a chance to elect a more moderate politician. If you go to a second vote on the House maps please vote for Szetela's Senate map, otherwise, please vote for Hickory.
And, thank you all for your sincere effort to listen and work together in these divisive times in the most transparent redistricting process ever!
Voters not politicians.
Margaret E Guoin
This is the most fair. I supported Prop 2 and was so glad when it passed. Thank you for all your hard work as a commission to achieve fairness in giving us representatives who will listen to our input.
Jane L Slaughter
Not great, but since our choices at this point are restricted, go with Hickory.
Margaret Weber
Of the proposed House maps, Hickory is the best of the worst. If you have to settle for one of these maps, please adopt Hickory.
Margaret Weber
All of the redistricting maps are imperfect. This is the best of them for fairness of representation. But it needs improvement. Seat count of 53D to 57R gives the majority of seats to the minority of voters. It is worth delaying the process to improve this map.
Margaret Weber
Do not separate the Grandmont Rosedale neighborhoods: North Rosedale, Rosedale Park, Grandmont, Grandmont 1, and Minock Park. These neighborhoods have worked collaboratively for community improvements and stability for decades.
Adren Rice
Do your duty. Make things fair.
Christine L Benninghoff
My district is essentially represented the same in all of the proposed maps, however, this one seems to do the best job of keeping communities of common interest together in the larger population centers.
Hirak Chanda
Would like to see Troy kept as one district
Charles Altman
I care most that the map reflects partisan fairness and contains competitive districts where possible. Please use this map.
Michael Glover
For my district, I like the Hickory map because it seems fair, competitive and VRA compliant.
Stephanie Laura Drozdalski
Hands down the most balanced and non-partisan map. Far from perfect, but represents well the community I live in and the surrounding communites to level out a fair voice with other districts.
Julia Goode
Please use this map.
Sherri Masson
This map is the best effort to make districts more competitive. Safe districts are bad for democracy.
Sherri Masson
I believe the Hickory map is the best effort to make House districts competitive. Our current rep never communicates with his constituents and doesn't even campaign because it's a "safe" district. This hurts democracy. It makes people cynical and less willing to vote.
Lisa Kiefer
This map is the fairest of the House maps. It also addresses VRA concerns in the state.
Bruce Fealk
This map has the highest degree of fairness.
Phillip Reid
This map appears to be a fair map. Thank you.
Lizbeth Estes
This map provides a good community of interest of our area keeping our school district fairly intact.
Vaughn Derderian
I really like the fact that this map makes a good faith effort to create VRA compliant districts.
Elizabeth C Palazzolo
Like the way this map keeps the waterfront communities of downriver together.
WALTER F CHERRY JR
FAIR is the objective. This map does it best. Thanks for all the work that went into this.
Daniel Herbert
Hickory is the best of the worst House maps. I want maps that are more fair and genuinely representative of local populations.
Gary Stark
Than k you for keeping the 3 very similar suburbs of East Grand Rapids, Kentwood, and Cascade together in one district. We have much in common and the district will ensure fair, balanced representation.
Kim Bergs
I like that this map links East Grand Rapids and Kentwood. In general it looks to keep communities of interest together! This map looks very fair over all!
Cindy Krieg
This map best represents the COI of the Grand Rapids area, with districts in the NW, NE, SE, SW and core city. Nicely done! Please choose this map!
Fred John Overeem
This map makes good sense to me. The working class and minority populations of Wyoming and Kentwood could get representation.
Matthew Kachel
This is clearly the most fair map for the House. The voters asked for fair maps and this is the one that is most fair to the voters and those running for office.
Justin Mendoza
This map seems to continue to balance the make up of communities on the west side, allowing for folks to vote based on similar lifestyles and values (at large). Plus district 42 is a competitive seat. Using the natural boundaries of the river and some county lines, while also addressing population density seems to be a good approach for our side of the state.
Kelly Grotendiek
This new map splits Allegan county into 3 districts. Keep Allegan together!
Christy Mayo
Thank you for listening to residents of Cascade, like me, keeping us with Grand Rapids metro. We are NOT a rural area.
CHERYL ROTTMANN
I misspoke on my previous comment - there is not a split precinct, but it does separate this precinct from the rest of the community. Please keep Madison Heights whole in its representation.
CHERYL ROTTMANN
Speaking as City Clerk, this map unnecessarily splits a precinct between 2 house districts - please keep Madison Heights whole in their representation and the precincts whole as well.
Victoria Gutowski
This map does not achieve the partisan fairness required by the Michigan Constitution. While I applaud the inclusion of Leelanau County with Grand Traverse as a community of interest, elsewhere in the state needs more work. Please keep working.
Janet Pushies
This seems like the most fair map for state congressional seats. Please consider this one. Thanks for all your had work - I'm sure it was very difficult.
Michael Jay Larmee
Other areas of the state that I know well seem well planned out.
Lynn H Pottenger
The maps offered for the State House districts are all too partisan, favoring Republicans by more than 5%. This is wrong and contrary to the goals of the bi-partisan redistricting effort that was voted in by 80% of Michigan voters—it should be fixed. Every district drawn for Midland, in particular, heavily favors Republicans instead of giving us a fair, competitive district. The Hickory House map has the least lop-sided efficiency gap of the 3 selected maps and it does keep all the needed alterations for the Detroit area to improve those COIs representation. It is disappointing that I cannot have a fair district for the City of Midland due to Republican grandstanding, but Hickory does a reasonable job for the rest of the state. I hope you can decrease the unfair Republican bias and improve the efficiency gap on Hickory for my Mid-Michigan district. I also hope you will not listen to the silly and biases statements from the so-called County leaders who apparently do not even realize that their Republican gerrymandering from the past 20 years has split Midland County and Gladwin County across 3 districts for Michigan House and so when they whine that these counties cannot be split due to flood recovery they are stepping in their own piles from the Republican-designed districts. We need partisan fairness in order to function as a democracy. Thank-you for your hard work on all these maps. Please make the House maps less partisan favoring Republicans, especially for the Mid-Michigan district.
Marian Mahoney
I have watched the commission’s progress throughout the redistributing process and have testified numerous times. This map, although imperfect, is the best so far. Please move forward with this map. Thank you for your efforts on this.
Jessica M Swartz
Better at keeping Kalamazoo neighborhoods together.
Sumita Pal
Hickory seems the most non-partisan.
Kaushik Pal
Hickory is fair.
Melissa Rose Luberti
Much more fair
Paula Johnson
This map seems fair for MI voters
Connie
This is the least unfair map.
Elizabeth Bielby
Not a bad map!
Shirley Lynn Kunze
This map seems fair-please vote yes for Michigan!
Nessa Feller
While no map is perfect, I feel that this does the best job of meeting the requirements with VRA and needs of COI. I support this map as the best one.
Shirley Lynn Kunze
Much better for MIchigan
Eric P Cadeau
Baraga County appears to have compatible economic interests at Marquette County. Both counties have a robust commercial forest industry, they depend on tourism, and medical care industries, they both have significant State of Michigan agency employers, they share the financial benefits of the Eagle Mine, they also share similar relationships with the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community. Although the political tendencies differ between these communities, I feel that Baraga can be well represented when paired with Iron, Marquette, and Alger Counties.
Stephen J Franko
Yes!
Linda Furlough
Of the collaborative maps proposed, Hickory comes closest to partisan fairness and reasonable VRA districts.
Joseph D Chin Jr
This is a fair map, however, it would be far better to add back the small section of the Grand Ledge area back into the District. This area is an integral part of Eaton County and it makes no sense to remove this very small part and put it in a district with the majority of that District in another County.
Charlie Starkman
As a Farmington Hills resident, I am not pleased that Farmington Hills is separate from Farmington on the map. However, this is the best as it appears to promote the greatest amount of partisan fairness.
Alex Bork
Should connect with Bay City per Szetela House Map
Mark Roger Putnam
I feel this is a good and fair map.
Kim S Nagy
Best of the maps
Lawrence S Alpert
This makes the most sense.
Patricia Belanger
This map is the most fair House map the Redistricting Commission has drawn.
Charlotte Jeanne Morton
Please vote for this map. It is a fair ungerrymandered map.
James Aidala
This map is the most fair of the bunch, and it would accurately keep communities of interest together. I support its adoption over any other plan.
Phil Sarnacke
By far the best to remove gerrymandering from our state house of representative
Luke Vandenberg
This map makes to best of what can be a messy process, and I appreciate the commission's work on this. I do feel it offers a fair and balanced redistricting, which is what we, the voters, asked for when we approved the ballot initiative.
Aimee Ergas
While it pains me to see Farmington and Farmington Hills split up, this map is better than the others as it seems to promote the most partisan fairness.
Sharon D Million
I thought the whole point of the voters demanding a nonpartisan committee to draw districts was so that there would be less gerrymandering. That doesn't seem to have happened. WHY? Hickory is the lesser of all the evils that the committee has put forward.
Andrea Geralds
I really like this one. It's a LOT fairer. A lot
Barbara Cooper
While no map is perfect, this map seems to have the best Voting Rights Act representation.
Stephen L Tillison
the most fair House map
Mark Danielewicz
This map seems most appropriate for representing the Voting Rights Act
ANGIE DANIELEWICZ
This is the fairest map although I think Farmington and Farmington Hills should not be separated.
Janet Louise Armil
This is the fairest map.
Anne Campbell
While this map continues to have Farmington divided, it appears to have more equity in other parts of the state. It looks more contiguous and fair
Anne Campbell
While Farmington continues to be divided in bizarre ways, this map appears to be more equitable in terms of other parts of the state and tries to have more contiguous districts
lori A Boyce
While this is messed up for my
community, it is the map with the most partisan fairness and Voting Rights Act representations
Eric Kyle Schichl
I like this map, since Taylor has the most people downriver than anyother Taylor would dominated the district it was in. that is why they split downriver up.
Robert Kennedy
Of the collaborative maps, this is the most fair. It has the lowest, closest to zero Efficiency Gap and is the best of the State House Maps. Please support this map when the voting begins! Thank you, commissioners.
Nancy Mroczkowski
The Commission has gotten this right with this map for Grand Rapids and Michigan. Districts are divided up into communities with like characteristics and requirements. In particular, District 80 where we live has collected common areas of middle class residential people. Also notice that the Hispanic/Latino community of Wyoming district 83 has been kept together. This will be good for their representation. In addition, numbers indicate that this is the fairest map for Michigan.
Cassandra M Foley
Please continue to adjust these maps for more partisan fairness. Midland and Bay City should be in the same House district. The Tri-Cities/Mid-Michigan community of interest should be honored in the House and Senate.
Deborah Kallunki
The Hickory map is the most fair House map. Vote YES on Hickory!
Fred Cepela
HICKORY should lead to fair, competitive districts.
HEATHER MLSNA
This configuration promotes fair elections.
HEATHER MLSNA
This configuration promotes fair elections.
HEATHER MLSNA
This configuration promotes fair elections.
Gregory Lynn Snider
This is the best of the available maps. Please vote for this one.
Jean-Philippe Faletta
A very fair map, II approve of this plan vs. the others.
Beverly J Riggie
This map is really close to zero bias. It is a fair map.
Cynthia J. Hudson
This map, while still showing Republican bias, is the best of the bunch. Maybe this one could be tweaked to be even better?
Carol Cappuccio
This is the best redistricting map. It provides a more balanced representation than the other maps.
Jeanne Munn
This is the most fair representation for the residents of my community.
ramona j clemente
One the the best as it appears to be the most impartial and bipartisan
Joanne Carlson
This is the best map that represents fairness for the citizens of my district!
Maggie D'Angelo
Please choose this map - it represents a bipartisan map. Thank you
Fay Tanner
This is a fair representation for redistricting.
Naomi Ludman
Either Hickory or Linden, please.
James S Rodgers
Thanks to the Commission for its efforts in creating Redistricting maps. Hickory appears to me to be the best House map. It has the most partisan fairness and provides fair representation for minority voters.
Chris Herweyer
This map represents the Wyoming community well and combines growing Hispanic neighborhoods on the border with Grand Rapids, providing an opportunity for better representation of the community.
Clifford Johnson
Hickory is better than the others, but the essential question is this: does it set us up for the majority to lose and the minority of votes to win? That's still a Yes, unfortunately. The stakes are so high, please take one more shot at making "one person, one vote" have meaning again.
Evert Vermeer
This map provides the most balanced representation for the Michigan House.
Mary E Vermeer
This is the most fair house map and should be the one selected
Constance Woods
Why are Troy and Clawson losing part of their cities to another district?
Eric Rader
Fair House map--I advocate approval.
Nicholas Dudley Barnes
This is the most fair senate map available. Please consider this one in your final decision. Fair and Balanced. Like all things should be.
mary sepe
Seem like a very fair and reasonable distribution of Democratic and Republican voters. Thanks for your time,effort and fairness.
Horace Porter Abbott
Hickory is the best and fairest map so far. It indicates how hard you have worked to achieve partisan equity, which it the central issue that has been so badly treated in the past.
Jennifer D Porter
It is time to draw and then choose maps that are fair to the voters and not partisan in nature. This is the most fair map and I urge you to choose fairness and democracy by majority vote. It is not fair to me and others for our representation in the state Congress to be chosen by the minority of voters.
Robert T King
Again I think this is a fair map. Thx for your work.
Kevin G Karpiak
If we've learned anything, it's that the complicated task of balancing all the legal requirements makes drawing these maps really hard and imperfect. This is a really good compromise
Barbara A Conley
this is a good map!
Kent Koehn
Thank you for volunteering for the commission and for reviewing voter comments to aid in your decision. Of all the house maps, this one appears to me to best represent the commission's task of working toward every vote counting.
Alexandra VanDoren
When I voted for the redistricting commission to be formed, it was with the intention that our voting districts would be drawn to make our elected legislature most closely reflect the balance of voters in our state. The HICKORY map comes closest to achieving that in our State House.
David A Berger
This map does represent an equability.
Timothy Duane Early
this map is okay, but still partisan
Molly Reeves
This map is not the worst. It carves up and attempts to sideline certain communities by splitting them up but is still better than other choices.
Mark Zacharda
I'm feeling this map. Partisan fairness (#1 reason why MI voters wanted MICRC) is reasonable! Go with it!
Carl Morrison
This is the best of the worst. But Was hoping for better.
Charles Henry
This map is the most fair map of the bunch. Please give it your support, Commission.
Scott Bunce
This map seems to to d a reasonable job of providing fair representation in congressional voting.
Katharine Shishkovsky
The Hickory map is the most fair of all the House District maps.
Katharine Shishkovsky
The Hickory map is the least unfair in terms of partisan fairness, which was the whole objective of the Voters Not Politicians effort in 2018. I still do not like the fact that you have divided Livonia into three House Districts, but you have given up listening to me on this issue.
Michael Wiese
Hickory looks to be the most fair, but my part of Commerce Charter Twp. is still cut up... chopped up. It is the best of the worst. We have much more in common with West Bloomfield, then Milford and Highland. Commerce has huge subdivision development, unlike Milford, Highland and White Lake. I am a real estate appraiser (45 years) and see the explosive growth of Commerce ...everyday! Milford, Highland and White Lake are definitely rural. Commerce is definitely Suburban and trending more so every year. The Walled Lake Consolidated School District has more in common with West Bloomfield Schools then with Huron Valley Schools.
Bridget Fox
Of all the House maps drawn this appears to be the fairest. I also like that the lakeshore is considered in the way the districts are drawn.
Susan Nicholas
This map is fair. Please vote in favor of it.
Dan Hoogterp
Please vote for this map as it is more fair.
Linda J Pell
Choose this map. This gives the minority population in Calhoun County a voice.
Jeffrey B Halter
Thank you. This is the fairest House map. It's why we all voted to create an independent commission.
Lawrence Rucker
Looks good
Gerald Lang
Free and Fair Elections
Amelia Hefferlin
Please choose this map -- it is the most fair and that is the goal of this redistricting project. Thank you!
Mary Kaven-Barron
This map meets is fair-please vote yes on this map!
Thomas L Knox
I've lived in Chelsea for 20 years and feel strongly that out community has more in common with the rest of Washtenaw County, especially Dexter, Scio Township, and parts of Ann Arbor. This map places us in with Jackson instead. Consider revising this map to include Chelsea in with more of Washtenaw County, to the east of here.
Robert Ziel
This appears to meat the neutrality goal. Politicians shouldn’t ask for any more. Pleas select this map.
Anita Lamour
This map is the most fair.
Anita Lamour
This map is the most fair.
marie joppich
this is an excellent fair map
marie joppich
This is an excellent map and very fair to everyone
Colleen Quinn
This map doesn't appear fair or reflective of desired communities of interest
Peter Bednekoff
This seems like the best of the proposed maps. It is a lot messier than I expected from this process. For my local area, I see many peculiarities and nothing obviously harmful in the boundaries.
John P. Lieto
After reviewing all the maps I find this one to be the most fair and the least impartial.
Jon G. LaSalle
I like Hickory the best (of poor choices). While not perfect, it has some better qualities than the others overall.
Gwen Hejna
Support Hickory as the least unfair State House map. This is the least bad of the House options, they all lean to partisan right.
Gregory Fox
Hickory is the least bad of the proposed state house district, with the most competitive districts.
Bob Zeuner
This Map should be split to run vertical instead of horizontal for House districts 17, 16 and 5 , and restore the communities of Livonia, Redford and West Detroit. You keep splitting these communities vertically and they should be split horizontally. You are also package all of these 3 districts to majority democratic up to 70%. Each of these communities want to stay intact and remain there correct communities.
Judy M. Stock
Dickinson County SHOULD NOT BE SPLIT
Judy M. Stock
Dickinson County SHOULD NOT BE SPLIT UP.
Marci W
This is the fairest out of the House maps. It has the best partisan fairness score and the most VRA districts.
Lisa P LaGrou
I dislike this map. This is not a good redistricting plan; it does not promote partisan fairness.
Charles Tobin LaVoy
I appreciate the UP getting 3 districts. West, Central and Eastern really do have their own interests.
Ruth Ziel
Again the maps were supposed to be neutral. While the partisan scoring is better it is not neutral.
Jeff Towner
This map is an improvement for partisan fairness.
Brandell Adams
The entirety of Bridgeport Charter Township has historically been in the same House district as the City of Saginaw. We are one and the same community and are tied together culturally and economically. It would be a great disservice to the citizens of Bridgeport to share representation with communities that are more rural in composition when Bridgeport has a dynamic mix of urban, suburban and rural constituencies. As a Trustee of Bridgeport Charter Township, I have a unique and personal perspective and can tell you that Bridgeport voters want to remain aligned closely to the City of Saginaw. Please do everything in your power to include the whole of Bridgeport Charter Township in the same House district as the City of Saginaw.
diane chielens
This map is much better for partisan fairness than the Palm map.
John Braamse
This map is the fairest of the options and improves on preventing communities of interest from each other.
Nancy Duemling
This map keeps our district very similar to the current one. I appreciate that it includes most of Clinton Township with all of the city of Mt. Clemens. Many of the other districts are similar to current configurations in our area, but with more attention paid to the COI along the shores of Lake St. Clair
Donna Farris
Appreciate that the northeast side of Grand Rapids is in a district with Plainfield, Grand Rapids and Ada Townships. This is our community and there are many commonalities here. In addition, this map has the best partisan fairness. This is the first choice for House maps
Robert Anderson
This map does achieve a good degree of fairness.
Michael Jewell
By far the best map of all the house maps but still very unfair. You should start over, but I know that wont happen so I choose this one
nina dodge abrams
Hickory Map is the least of the bad maps for the House, but we beg you to pause and start over on the House maps. We do not want unfair maps. The party with the least votes will get the most seats. This is not the purpose of your commission. PLEASE start over on the House maps!
Douglas Helzerman
Hickory looks like it is Gerrymandered. It violates every idea of Citizens not politicians. The democrat party could not draw a more partisan map
Gretta Van Bree
Best of the lot, I guess.
Teri G Frantz
This is the only House map I like. It keeps the lakeshore communities together. They have common interests.
Michael Sklar
This is the fairest state House map of any of the ones offered by the Commission. It also does the best job of complying with the Voting Rights Act requirements regarding minority communities, though it could have been better. VRA compliance is one of the weakest aspects of the Commission's maps, but this one at least does a decent job of it.
Patrick Richardson
I do not like the Hickory State House map. It combines rural Waterloo Township in Jackson County with a large part of Ann Arbor and other more densely populated Townships in Washtenaw County. Ann Arbor has public utilities, widely available broadband, and public transportation. Waterloo Township has none of these things. These different communities have different interests and needs and therefore require different legislative representation. Please adopt instead the “Szetela” State House map. It does a much better job of satisfying the ‘communities of interest’ objective for Jackson County. Thank you.
Cheryl Gambrell
Maps could always be better but Hickory map does a better job covering the requirements outlined for fairer redistricting and greater partisan fairness
Dr. Melanie A. Hartman
This map does a good job of addressing the VRA related concerns of people in Detroit and closest to a reasonable partisan fairness measure.
Mary Ann Fontana
This is the best of the State House maps. However I have a big problem with the fact that Oak Park and Royal Oak Township are split in half.
William Asher
Partisan fairness is my main criterion for voicing approval or disapproval of your maps. Partisan unfairness = gerrymandering. That's the whole point of the citizens commission. This map comes closest of all your state house maps in achieving fairness. Please approve this map.
lori A Boyce
This is the fairer of these maps state wide. Thus, i would support this map of the available maps.
Debbie Rosenman
This map more closely aligns with partisan fairness.
Vaughn Derderian
This map does a good job addressing the VRA related concerns of people in Detroit and comes closest to a reasonable partisan fairness measure.
Cary Fleischer
Thank you for keeping State House districts in the Greater Grand Rapids area including Ada, Cascade and Plainfield townships together. We look forward to having representation for our district 80 including the like communities of Kentwood, East Grand Rapids and Cascade township. Best map for Michigan as well.
Anne Wallin
It is very disappointing that this map splits Midland from the tri-city area. Cities have much in common in terms of public policy needs and would benefit from an elected representative who could focus. This map is also biased in favor of the Republican party (as are the other two) which leaves me in an noncompetitive district which is very disappointing. Competitive districts are very important to me so that politicians have to represent their districts fully and broadly not just listen to a certain segment. That said, this is the best of the three options. At least others in the state will have a more competitive district even if I don't.
cheryl scales
I like this, but it would be better if all of northern Kent County was included together
Melany Mack
This map seems more fair than others. I like the Hickory map for that reason.
Karen Weideman
Thanks for unpacking Democrats in the Lansing area and the Ann Arbor area. All the maps have Republican bias, but this one is the best of the bad.
Maps that are less unfair, are still unfair. We want maps that are actually fair.
Conner
This is the least unfair state House map, and is closest to compliance with the Constitution (although it still hugely favors one political party over another, which is illegal). This district in particular does a good job of connecting Jackson to other cities along I-94, which is a major economic community of interest as outlined in the Constitution. It is also about 50/50 between the two political parties, which means this is a very competitive district -- meaning the voices of the people will actually be heard, whichever way we choose to vote! Good job on this one.
Dorothy Munson
I want to thank the commission for splitting the districts to keep like areas of the city together. The south side of Grand Rapids (district 82) that has the poor minority population could use a dedicated representative. Also, this is the fairest map for Michigan overall.
Ethan Holmes
Barry County should not be split three ways.
Jennifer Mabrey
Commission was formed to free Michigan of unfair partisan bias, this map is one of the least unfair of the available drafts.
David Hopkinson
Least bad MI House map. Still contains partisan bias. Violates Constitutional criterion but would be an acceptable map if you are not going to start one on the MI House maps. Please consider possibility to start over on MI House maps.
Brian Baker
Grouping Kentwood and EGR with Cascade Township, Forest Hills, and Grand Rapids Township seems like grouping suburbs with city folk. These are two very different communities of interest. and does not work for the Kent County area.
Claire Ott
Grateful that Kalamazoo is together in one district
Emily Jernberg
Hickory is the best of the worst House maps. We need fair maps. Please do fair, competitive districts. We want representatives who have to listen to their constituents. Seat count of 53D to 57R gives the majority of seats to the minority of voters.
Jacqueline Dilley
Hickory is the best of the worst House maps. We want maps that are fair. Please go back to the drawing board and re-draw these maps. We want candidates that listen to constituents.
Carrie Hatcher-Kay
Hickory is the best of the worst House maps. PLEASE go back to the drawing board to achieve the mission you set out to achieve: fair, competitive districts across the state. We want candidates to have to listen to their constituents. That was the mission of Voters Not Politicians creating your commission. THANK YOU!
ALAN FOX
Best of a bad lot. Consider starting over, but if not this is the best.
Michael Cameron
I do not like the Hickory State House map. It combines Waterloo Township in Jackson County with much of the city of Ann Arbor.
Erin MacGregor
Whatever happened to keeping the districts as square as possible? Isn't that supposed to be a main goal when redistricting occurs? Why is it assumed that people have the same interests/opinions just because they are the same race or ethnicity? That's an offensive assumption.
This map is a terrible mess.
Daniel Luria
Hickory is the fairest of the State House maps. As a resident of the bluest corner of Livingston County, I am tired of being represented by hard-right Republicans playing only to rural yahoos who think the Biden landslide and Covid are hoaxes. Partly because of US 23, and partly because the Huron River "chain of lakes" joins southern Livingston and northern Washtenaw, the Hickory map expresses my political, cultural, and recreational community. Thank you.
Connie M
The Hickory map is the least unfair. Partisan fairness must be prioritized.
Sandra Legacy
The Hickory map seems more fair than the other choices.
Joel Ibbotson
Just like I commented on the Pine V5 and Magnolia maps, I dislike that this map splits Barry County into 3 districts. The people of Barry County are very much like minded with many of the same goals. We should be represented as such. We should be represented in a way we can unify our voice to implement effective change the way we have been.
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Frederick Beiermeister
Farmington and Farmington Hills should be connected fin a District. We share many civic assets and nothing is gained by separating our representation. Hickory is the best for us of a weak lot.
Drew Beckman
While I do not like the fact that Sterling Heights is split up into three different districts, this map is the fairest when it comes to proportionality of seats. This map is probably the best House map, although it is far from perfect.
Jerry Oljace
I like the Hickory map. It is the “least unfair" in terms of partisan fairness. And, partisan fairness should be a key consideration for the MICRC in approving the final maps.
Robin Knaack
Don’t chop up Allegan county like this it makes no sense unless some gerrymandering is going on.
Vaughn Derderian
I like this map, and I'm excited about a district that covers both suburbs and parts of Detroit.
Sharon Houck
Hickory is a BAD Map. As with the other maps, it does not keep Jackson County whole and combines us to Ann Arbor. Please DO NOT choose this map.
John Chapman
No good choice for house, not this one.
Garrett Brown
I’m a former mayor of Albion. Thank you for reconnecting Albion and Battle Creek into one community of interest! This makes sense because Albion and Battle Creek are similar in terms of post-industrial economies and racial demographics. Albion is approximately 30% Black/African American. Severing Albion’s political ties with Battle Creek would do serious harm to the political power of Black residents whose families relocated to both communities during the Great Migration-era.
Marie Johansen
I am disappointed and concerned that this map totally disregards the reasoning and decisions reflected in the Senate and Congressional maps to align Midland with its Tri-City sisters-Bay City and Saginaw. Why would you now decide to separate Midland from the Tri-Cities and encase Midland within it's county - who are you protecting???? I voted "liked" only because this map is a bit better than the other 2 being proposed, but it certainly continues to reflect partisan partiality favoring Republicans by 5%, which is way above the goal of 1%. It seems that for this mid-MI area, the citizens as a whole, are not being given the freedom to actually choose their representative, because this district-esp. for Midland-continues to be protected to keep the status quo. Voting should matter and in order to matter, there must be a fair ability for citizens to have their votes count within a framework of partisan fairness. I think there could be more work on the district where Midland will reside, if that is an option.
Alexander Gustafson
Good.
Casey Adams
This creates a competitive map just like it is now. Several Republicans and Democrats have one this seat in the past decade. Keep it the way it is.
Gretchen Gruner
The Hickory map its the best one for Washtenaw county in keeping a fair and non-partisan balance. PLEASE VOTE NO on the Palm map which is strongly biased and does not represent a majority of voters.
Chris Wingate
Too much splitting in order to get more votes for Dems. The only map in this category to get my approval is Magnolia.
Forrest Robison
The 96th District map is very well done. It represents the geographical economics of the area.
patricia m nelson
email verification link brought me here. Just verifying previous comment.
Cindy Weir
If have to choose a map, it would have to be this one.
The commission needs to work towards better partisan fairness scores. All these maps favor Republicans by more than 5%. Isn't the goal to be less than 1%? Maybe draw a few that favors Democrats. Thanks!
ROBERT T SWICKER
just verifying my previous comment (verification email link led me here)
ROBERT T SWICKER
this map is good
patricia m nelson
a good map
Jennifer Rosenberg
None of these maps have achieved a fair and balanced solution.
Nathan Halder
This district is clearly Gerrymandered to favor dems. Albion and Battle Creek have nothing in common. Including the Battle Creek suburb of Emmett Township instead would make so much more sense. I have lived in Battle Creek my entire life and have only gone to Albion twice.
Nathan Halder
This district is clearly Gerrymandered to favor dems. Albion and Battle Creek have nothing in common. Including the Battle Creek suburb of Emmett Township instead would make so much more sense. I have lived in Battle Creek my entire life and have only gone to Albion twice.
Kim K Lindsey
This map is flawed in so many ways. Please use the Magnolia map.
Josephine Rood
Please keep working to draw state house maps that are truly fair. Hickory is the best so far, but still gives an undue advantage to the Republican Party. Thank you so much for all your efforts, Commissioners! I hope that MICRC's work will be a model for the nation.
Stephen J Young
Allegan County belongs all together, not diced up into multiple parts and pieces.
Mary O'Neill
I like the Promote the Vote Maps as they are Fair Maps. This one is as close to Fair among the three Maps that are presented.
Gloria Woods
I like the Chestnut map the best of the choices put before me. Thank you
Penny K Wingate
This terribly splits my neighboring counties and does not keep communities of interest together. Go with Magnolia.
Jay R Taylor
Terrible split of Oakland County just to please and reward Democrat strongholds. Need to keep large cities intact and have smaller townships intact.
Tammy J DeRuyter
I have long believed that County Lines are a throw-back to an earlier century. The partisan rating for all of these House maps are over 5% -no where near an equitable number. While I am not in favor of this particular map, given the other choices, it is the best of the 3. I don't understand why grouping the tri-cities is fair and right for the congressional and senate maps but not for House maps. Heavy sigh. If this is our best choice, I reluctantly vote in its favor. I rank it a semi-dismal "like" but as always, am grateful for your work. Thank you.
M. Radtke
This map is a terrible gerrymander. Sterling Heights is the 4th largest city in the state and is sliced and diced beyond all recognition. This makes no sense.
Constance Lippert
Sadly, this is the best of the worse when attempting to get maps for the State House that don't favor one political party over the other. All of the House maps need more work and I hope that we can get to a better 50/50 split of political parties so that the minority of voters don't continue to dominate the Michigan House.
John Andrews
This map is fair and allows the voters to pick their representative
Tina Andrews
Hickory seems to be the best option for having competitive districts.
Carol J McPherson
I like the Hickory Map the best if I have to pick one.
Yim Kong
Happy to see that this map accurately represents People of Color in the Grand Rapids area. Also, the districts seem to be divided to keep ethnic communities together to give them a voice - west side district 84, the south city area district 82, and the Wyoming city district 83 in particular. Thank you for keeping the Grand Rapids area together and working for good representation.
Abbie Egherman
This map like the other state house maps unfairly distorts the legislative body in Lansing by giving an unfair advantage to a single party and makes our state appear much more partisan than it actually is. We live in a purple state and our legislative body should reflect that.
Lisa Lamancusa
We appreciate that the Commission has kept Ada as part of the northeast Grand Rapids area district 81. We are an integral part of this urban area. Thank you for considering our comments and giving us representation.
Marunur R Choudhury
On behalf of APIA Vote-MI, we ask the commission to spend more time revising the state house maps. We recognize that the MICRC has already worked very hard, but we need to spend more time to ensure fairness as we will be stuck with these maps for 10 years
Nancy M Howk
Same as Magnolia. Battle Creek has nothing in common with the district identified. Should have expanded directly around Battle Creek Area and combined the balance into an area. Feels like cancelling voices here! Please DO NOT Support this map. Thank you.
Carol A Sullivan
I urge the commission to resume work on these maps to get them closer to zero political bias. None of the state house maps meets partisan fairness standards. The map with the most partisan fairness is Szetela's map and the Midland-Bay City district makes sense. If this map is not available for the initial vote, and the commission refuses to improve the partisan fairness scores of the maps, I reluctantly support Hickory as it has the best partisan fairness scores of the 3 collaborative maps.
Liam Smith
State legislators need fair maps where both parties are competitive. This district along with the other two up for consideration are better than the one that combines parts of Calhoun County with Kalamazoo County. Good job Commissioners!
George Moroz
I favor the Hickory House map over the other alternatives as it has the least partisan unfairness
Suzanne L Eastman
This is so unfair. Go back to the drawing board.
Linda E Schwelnus
This is the map with least partisan unfairness although it could be improved. I like that Northville and Plymouth are in the same district.
Sarah T
On behalf of APIA Vote-MI, we urge the commission to spend more time on the house maps to ensure that they are as fair as possible. The MICRC was established in part to right the wrongs that gerrymandering has caused to Michigan, and if we proceed further with the state house maps as is, then gerrymandering will continue to damage the political process in our state for at least 10 more years (with the impact being felt the most in our communities of color). I know that the commission has worked very hard on these maps, but we need to spend more time. Continued effort to ensure fairness is absolutely worth the extra effort, because, again, we will have to live with these maps for 10 years.
Sarah Torres
This map is not fair to the tri-cities at all! Please follow most other maps and keep all parts of Midland, Bay City, and Saginaw together where they belong. Otherwise, you are giving into the gerrymandering of the past. This map does NOT represent partisan fairness!
Roger Rittenhouse
Thank you for keeping Cascade Township in the greater Grand Rapids area map. The township is an urban area and is not agricultural or rural. It has a common interest with Grand Rapids. The GR airport is located in the township. This map is the best map with the most common interests for the township.
Pat Dawson
Thanks for keeping Grandville with Walker. My grandson lives in Walker but goes to Grandville schools. Thanks for keeping the Polish neighborhood community together on the west side in district 84.
Susan H. Gross
The MOST important goal of redistricting is to make sure that the party getting more votes in an election gets more seats. This is not the case for the maps drawn for the Michigan House of Representatives based on 2020 election data.
Dan Fox
This seems to be the best of a somewhat underwhelming set of choices. It does incorporate some improvements in Detroit where I have serious concerns about VRA compliance of all the plans.
Betty Jane Palm
This map is unfair because it does not give equal weight to all people voting - it should provide partisan fairness and fair weight.
Melanie A Kurdys
It is so disappointing to see the obvious gerymandering in these maps. Allegan County is again split into 6 districts, breaking up our community of interest into fragments. Please go back to the drawing board. Surely you can do better.
Jeff Alan Schaeper
Why is the largest city in Oakland County being split? This makes no sense and violates COI guidelines. I fail to see how West Sterling Heights have a stronger connection to East Troy as we don't share schools, library, police, fire and other essential services. This map should be rejected.
Matthew D. Horwitt
All House maps are unfair, but Hickory is much better than the others. Consider going back to drawing board. These maps should be better. Thanks for unpacking Democrats in Lansing area.
Kay Rochlitz
The Hickory map is the best of the proposed maps. I like how it has the whole of Midland County together plus an added chunk to get to the population density needed. I do not support the little bits of Bay County being included - so small, just leave with Bay County. If there is a possibility of making some adjustments to the map to make this district more competitive party-wise, that would be preferable. That's the whole purpose of Prop 2. Thank you very much for your service in this first round of an independent commission.
Donni Steele
Although it is appreciated that Orion Township and Village are kept whole, taking pieces of Oakland Twp, Auburn Hills Bloomfield Hills and Bloomfield is converging "un-like" communities together. Orion community aligns most similarly to whole communities to the North, East and West not South.
Mark A Evans
Please don’t create a Lake Shore districts. I understand the Lake shore has unique challenges. however, everyone in the Allegan County has a stake in this lakeshore. Allegan County is very cut up. County lines need to be respected as best they can be. (All these maps have same issue for Allegan)
Chuck Wright
District 48 being in Livingston county and Ann Arbor make no sense. Only some of these people have thoughts and actions that are a polar opposite of normal common sense. There is no way that this group can have fair representation.
Sam Chu
We have a Chinese restaurant in Kentwood. Most of our customers come from East Grand Rapids and Cascade as well as Kentwood. Now I see this is in the same district 80-hooray. This district is composed of people are all similar in middle class economics and lifestyles. Looking forward to Have a State Representative in district 80 that services all my customers.
Thanks for keeping all the areas in the six cities (Grand Rapids, Kentwood, Wyoming, Grandville, Walker and East Grand Rapids) along with the townships of Grand Rapids, Cascade, Ada and South Plainfield together in the State House maps. This is the core of the Greater Grand Rapids city and suburban area.
Brian Kerrigan
This map better achieves fair districts and partisan fairness.
Molly Morrissey
Of the three collaborative maps this one is the best because it has the best overall partisian fairness BUT I would encourage you to continue to work on the House maps. This map does a good job in the Detroit area because it contains the changes that Kellom and Curry suggested but in Midland it will just be a safe Republican seat and will not lead to good representation.
Sylvia Jania
Please listen to the voters.
sylvia Jania
Please make fair the maps that you are changing.
Frank L Armock
None of the maps are fair especially when we the people voted for partisan fairness.
Frank L Armock
This map doesn't seem fair. Let's make it truly bipartisan
Frank L Armock
This map is not fair since it gives a minority of voters a majority voice in voting.
Greg Mayville
None of the State House maps achieve the partisan fairness scores they should because they all favor Republicans by more than 5%. Every district drawn for the Midland House is heavily biased in favor of Republicans instead of giving the area a competitive district. If I have to choose between the 3 biased maps, the Hickory map is the most fair. Even if I’m unable to have a competitive district for Midland, I want the rest of the state to have a good map. Hickory keeps all the alterations made to the Detroit area to increase majority-minority districts and improve the representation of COI’s, and also has the lowest lopsided margin and efficiency gap numbers. Hickory is the best map of the 3 for the state.
Bryan Yakel
I support the Magnolia map. I did not choose to live in Ann Arbor, Novi, Wixom or any of the other places the Hickory map includes. There is no rational that can be given for breaking up Livingston county into multiple pieces. Livingston county has had a unique identity that goes back many years and it is that has kept a large number of long time residences. I am in favor of the Magnolia map.
Carol Yakel
We moved into our community because we liked just the way it was. I would prefer that it never change. That being said, I do not like that Hickory version for our future.
Thomas Mallia
None of the maps are fair especially when we the people voted for partisan fairness. Why do they all lean in favor of the Republicans? I am in favor of this map and keeping Northville intact.
Edwin Coy Jr
I like how all of Kalamazoo and surrounding area is in one district. makes representation easy
Bruce Roller
I am Bruce Roller, Director of the UCOM food bank and neighborhood support services organization for over 35 years located in the Wyoming City suburb of Grand Rapids Hispanic area and one of the primary food banks in the Grand Rapids area food bank alliance. We are excited to see that Wyoming and Grand Rapids City Hispanic neighborhoods have been kept together in a district and the south side Grand Rapids city underserved neighborhoods in another district in this House map. Looking forward to one dedicated Representative to speak for the Hispanic population and another for the south side city to address their unique issues. Low-cost housing, healthcare, employment, city services, etc.
Pamela S. Ovshinsky
I have lived in the 107th for over 32 years and I was very hopeful that a nonpartisan redistricting commission would redraw Michigan’s districts in a principled manner that would reflect the needs of the residents in our various geographic areas in our state without bias and/or giving advantage to one political party over another. This map for the 107th does not seem to meet these standards and deserves to be reworked. This is a complicated and nuanced strategic effort since one district cannot be redrawn with it not affecting the boundaries of the surrounding districts. I’m wondering if the commission had access to professional map planners and demographic analysts to look at the whole state and identify factors such as population, geographic features etc. and then also took each district individually and identified the issues that needed to be addressed in each district and how they can better be redressed. It does not seem to be clear what they were attempting to redress in any of the new redistricting map as evidenced by the redrawn 107th district. What were the principles and goals in play when they continued to include the both the areas below the bridge and over the bridge in this district when there is little connection among residents in these areas in our daily lives? Again, this is a monumental process and at this stage should be considered only a first draft. After the comment period is over, I urge the commission to take into consideration the various pertinent concerns and redraw the districts with new or clarified goals and principles in mind. I think we can and must do better for the people of our great state! Thank you.
April Sanders
The districts need to continue to be refined. Combining portions of the UP and LP is not a good idea. The UP has their own challenges and Northern Lower have our challenges. Petoskey as the highest populated city in the district should not overshadow rural needs.
Please work at further separating the areas.
Thank you! April
Allen Salyer
Keep all of Troy, Michigan together, not split and not any part of Troy in Macomb County.
Karen Lawrence
Thanks for working so hard to keep the 6 city Grand Rapids area together and creating a fair map statewide. Our Polish and Lithuanian population is happy to be represented together in Ward 2 in District 84. Looking forward to seeing the Representative address our issues with the rising cost of housing and public schools.
Cheryl Staats
this map is not fair since it gives a minority of voters a majority voice in voting
Cheryl Staats
this map is not fair since it gives a minority of voters a majority voice in voting
Cheryl Staats
this map is not fair since it gives a minority of voters a majority voice in voting
Cheryl Staats
this map is not fair since it gives a minority of voters a majority voice in voting
Audrey McMullen
District 107 seems to represent a lot of water, then a lot of rural area over two different peninsulas, and two major population centers: Petoskey and Harbor Springs. Issues affecting urban areas are often at odds with rural issues. The UP really is very far distant from the LP in miles, demographics, and culture. Representation is deeply complicated by our geography. The urban-rural divide also makes representation problematic. This map could use tweaking.
DAVID H FERRIS
Stop the gerrymandering because it contributes to political extremism and infighting. Use regular shaped boundaries regardless of party affiliation.
DAVID H FERRIS
Stop the gerrymandering because it contributes to political extremism and infighting. Use regular shaped boundaries regardless of party affiliation.
Carol Ingall
Hickory is better than the others, but, you can do better. Thanks for unpacking Democrats in the Lansing area.
DAVID H FERRIS
Stop the gerrymandering because it contributes to political extremism and infighting. Use regular shaped boundaries regardless of party affiliation.
DAVID H FERRIS
Stop the gerrymandering because it contributes to political extremism and infighting. Use regular shaped boundaries regardless of party affiliation.
DAVID H FERRIS
Stop the gerrymandering because it contributes to political extremism and infighting. Use regular shaped boundaries regardless of party affiliation.
Carolyn L. Bourland
District 107 should all be below the bridge. It is very difficult for any Representative to campaign and represent citizens above and below the bridge. Each area has many of its own problems. Many of these Districts look very much the same as before we worked so hard to get signatures and the issue on the ballot. The Commission MUST make changes to insure the same political party does not continue to dominate in these Districts while they are the minority party. The minority should not be able to CONTINUE with the same control as before this issue was voted on by the people of Michigan. We voted for VOTERS NOT POLITICIANS to choose their Representatives! We want a free and fair election every time!
Edwin Coy Jr
I like how Ypsilanti is it's own district. You should do the same with Ann Arbor.
Edwin Coy Jr
Why is Chelsea getting combined with Jackson? If you live in the area around Chelsea, you consider yourself living in Chelsea. Chelsea should go in District 47 and take Ann Arbor out of 47.
Edwin Coy Jr
Why is Ann Arbor Split up? They should be their own District. Instead it looks like you're trying to spread Ann Arbor Residents influence into the surrounding rural areas.
Edwin Coy Jr
This district is primarily Rural. Putting in part of Ann Arbor is Clearly trying to influence the outcome. To have a representative that lives in the City represent this rural district is no better than how the maps that were used in the past.
Cal Morton
I agree with Robert Dragan's comment in the HICKORY map, "This is a great map for the Ada/Forest Hills area, keeping it in the same district as the northern side of Grand Rapids and including Grand Rapids Township and Plainfield Township into the same district 81. These are my COIs. This map would be politically fair for the north side of Grand Rapids and keeping it in the same district with the northeast and eastern suburbs." Please adopt this map.
Kelly Jones
Troy is the largest and most diverse city in Oakland County. This is a terrible map - that would split a portion of Troy into Macomb County. This is not representative of our city. This is not fairly drawn for the community of Troy
Cheryl D Hayes
Hickory is the best of the State House maps however it favors the Republican party, which is unacceptable. Please give us a House map that eliminates partisan bias.
Angie Kelleher
The Hickory map unfortunately still favors Republicans for the Midland district by more than 5%. However, it's the best of the three proposed maps for the State house. At least the Detroit area districts are drawn in a more balanced way, and the map in general seems to be fairer for the rest of the state, even if my district is still lopsided toward Republicans.
David Gruner
this mapping gives a minority of voters a majority voice
David Gruner
this mapping gives a minority of voters a majority voice
David Gruner
this mapping gives a minority of voters a majority voice
David Gruner
this mapping gives a minority of voters a majority voice
David Gruner
this mapping gives a minority of voters a majority voice
David Gruner
this mapping gives a minority of voters a majority voice
David Gruner
this mapping gives a minority of voters a majority voice
Amy Vail
All the house maps are unfair. This is the best of the lot, but less unfair is still unfair. Please redraw better maps that do not give majority voice to minority voters.
Gretchen Gruner
This map is not fair. It gives a majority voice to a minority of voters. Please redraw this map.
Jessica
This map makes no sense for Livingston county. Splitting the community up is not in the best interest of its residents.
John E Lewis
The magnolia map is a better plan of consolidated communities.
Carrie Hatcher-Kay
Hickory Map is the least of the bad maps for the House, but we beg you to pause and start over on the House maps. We do not want unfair maps. The party with the least votes will get the most seats. This is not the purpose of your commission. PLEASE start over on the House maps!!
Gretchen Gruner
This is a not ideal map that could be improved with more fair representation. Please go back and redraw a better map.
Carol Bardenstein
While this map is an improvement on previous ones, it is still disproportionate to 'one person, one vote', and as long as we are going to all the trouble of redrawing these maps, for this one time in a decade, we should do it right to make maps with no bias.
Richard Burney
Unacceptable. Continues current maldistribution rather than undoing the gerrymandering of the last 10 years.
Cal Morton
I agree with Kristine S Detmers comment posted in Michigan State House Pine V5 map, "... All these maps should have been drawn with a color blind eye and based on population alone! Gerrymandering at its worse!". The data shown in these maps should have only provided the "Total Population" and the "Voting Age Population". All other numbers are injecting race and ethnicity which overlooks the most important fact, "We are ALL Americans"!
Richard Michalski
This is the best plan, since it creates the most competitive districts(5% margin or less). See attached chart for comparison.
Richard Michalski
This is the best plan since it is one that creates the most competitive districts. See attached chart.
Fred Hall
While all of the maps have a Republican bias, this is the most fair.
Rich Thrush
This is the best of the House maps for Michigan. Grand Rapids area configuration will give a voice to Hispanic, African, and other like communities within the area. The underserved south side of the city will have needed dedicated representation for their unique issues. It is great to see the Walker/Grandville cities combined with the west side of Grand Rapids to keep these like areas together. Thanks for making the changes in the Grand Rapids area. This fulfills the expectations that all Grand Rapids area voters had for fair maps.
Dave Morgan
Why would a school district be split is two? Marshall and Albion share the same school district. Why would they not be kept together? Also Battle Creek, Emmett, Pennfield, Bedford, and Springfield share Police and Fire with Mutual Aid, they all are members of BCATS, and AMASA, share the same Library, Sewer system, Chamber of Commerce and on and on. Albion and Battle Creek share nothing in common including having separate Chambers of Commerce, Separate NAACP Branches, not to mention with this map you have to drive through another district to get from one side to the other. This map is obviously gerrymandered and stretched and is no different than what currently exist which says enough sing the district was one used as an example of a gerrymandered district and a reason why this commission was needed.
Robert Dragan
This is a great map for the Ada/Forest Hills area, keeping it in the same district as the northern side of Grand Rapids and including Grand Rapids Township and Plainfield Township into the same district 81. These are my COIs. This map would be politically fair for the north side of Grand Rapids and keeping it in the same district with the northeast and eastern suburbs.
Beverly J Riggie
This is the map with the least political bias, but it would be nice if the bias was closer to zero.
Linda Appling
The purposed state maps could definitely use a rework. The House maps exhibit a bias towards republicans. However Hickory is much better than the others. If you don't go back to the drawing board, KEEP Hickory. Thanks for unpacking the Dems. in the Lansing area
Allison McFarland Wilcox
This map is the best of a bad lot. Partisan fairness overall is better than the other proposed maps, but none of them are really good enough. And keeping Midland county whole, with part of Gladwin, makes district 95 a secure Republican seat, not a competitive district. Of the the three maps, though, this one (Hickory) has the best districts for the Detroit area and improves representation for minority voters in that area. However, please consider trying again to improve partisan fairness overall.
Judy Dee Whipps
This map makes sense in terms of grouping similar communities of interest.
Sue Macrellis
Seems a tired refrain at this point, but here is yet another map slicing and dicing Jackson County and reaching its tentacles into Ann Arbor. And again it gives the residents of Jackson County four representatives. I do not like this map.
Carrie Hatcher-Kay
This is the least bad of the House Maps. It does NOT have partisan fairness. You did some good things unpacking Ann Arbor and Lansing here, but it's not fair for the rest of the state. PLEASE take your time and draw another map. I am sorry that means it will activate another 45 days when you are eager to be done, but it is important we work hard now to get partisan fairness for 10 years. Thank you!
Virginia Preuss
This is the best of a really bad set of choices for the House map. Maps that are less unfair, are still unfair.
This map (and all other house maps) lack partisan fairness. Seat count of 53D to 57R gives the majority of seats to the minority of voters
Nomi Joyrich
This is the best of the House maps, but it still has no partisan fairness. I like that it unpacks Lansing and Ann Arbor. I like that it has VRA districts, This does the best job with COI, but still needs to be reworked.
Margaret Schankler
All of these maps are unfair, but this is the best of them. I urge you to go back and reduce Republican bias/efficiency gap which would create a 53/57 seat distribution. What I do like about this map is that it split up Ann Arbor & Ypsilanti.
Daniel Jones
While I don't necessarily like the pas that have been presented, the Hickory map is by far the best of the worst!!
Adam Nash
After due consideration, and with respect to the commissioners, all of the proposed state house maps suck. Please give it another try, and please bear in mind the efficiency gap metric when interpreting "A disproportionate advantage to a political party shall be determined using accepted measures of partisan fairness."
Trent Varva
Of the maps presented so far, Hickory is your best option. It still falls short on partisan fairness and VRA compliance, and the commission should strive to continue to improve the house maps. If you do not, then please choose Hickory as your least bad option.
Sally Beyer
This is Gerrymandering in the allegan county. The entire chicago owned lakeshore is pulled together. This needs to stop. This will break up the Allegan county unfairly. This is carving out and I do not agree with this catepillaring method of the lakeshore district. We belong together as we have always done well before.
Bill Zdeblick
Allegan County belongs together. I do not agree with the 'caterpillar' district down the lakeshore. This does not represent my community. Looks like the Chicago owners on the lake have the power.
Ciara Lowe
This is the most fair map of the State House maps but it still has partisan bias. Work still needs to be done especially in the Detroit area.
Laurence S Rosen
I think all of the State House districts are biased towards Republicans, which is very little different than the current districts, but the Hickory map is the best of several bad choices.
John Cameron
All maps are unfair, but Hickory is a step above the rest. Let's start from scratch. The state deserves to be better. Lansing is more fairly spread out. MUCH better than Magnolia or Pine though!
Ross Vandercook
This map is fair and the best map.
Janice Karlovich
I like the Hickory Map a lot. I am a resident of Green Oak Twp south of Brighton, and our area is seeing tremendous growth from people moving up to our area from Ann Arbor and Washtenaw County. Hickory is one of the few House maps that acknowledges Livingston County as a crossroads between Ann Arbor-Novi-Lansing.
Judy Oake
Dislike this map. It assumes that the COIs of Chelsea are more aligned with Jackson County. After living in this community for over 40 years, I'd argue Chelsea is more aligned with the COIs in your proposed district 47. Please reconsider so Chelsea is more accurately reflected.
PHILIP F MARTINEZ
While all of the State House of Representative maps are unfair, Hickory is the best of the options. It does unpack Democrats in the Lansing area, which is progress, but state-wide, it is still unfair.
Kathleen Thorrez
It’s confusing why Jackson County is divided up 4 ways, I’m not understanding the common bonds with Ann Arbor since we have such different types of business, urban conditions and educational needs. However, of the maps presented for House Representation, I would choose magnolia over the others presented.
Richard Michalski
This is the best of the 4 options presented. It creates 34 competitive seats (based on 5% or less margin). This compares to 29 for Szetela plan, Pine with 30, and Magnolia with 34 also. Magnolia would be my second choice.
Karen J Obits
It's hard to enthusiastically endorse any of the commission's collaborative House maps because none come close enough to achieving the goal of holding in healthy tension your constitutional criteria of COIs and partisan fairness. This map does result in the best partisan fairness scores of your collaborative House maps so it gets my "OK but it could/should be better" comment on the partisan fairness criterion. From a review of the comments on this map I think I see some thumbs-up approving comments from various COIs that are representative of historically marginalized communities - which is a very high priority for me even though I can't speak intelligently on their behalf as I am not part of one of those marginalized communities. My Big Ask is that the Commission find a way to incorporate comments that honor these 2 goals I speak to here in this comment into your final House map(s).
Elizabeth Julia Cezat
This is my preference for the state house map.
Victoria Gutowski
This map does not meet the criteria for partisan fairness required by the Michigan Constitution. Please keep working. Other groups like the AFL and Promote the Vote have submitted maps that are much fairer. Please make my vote count in the next election and make politicians work for citizenry and not big money.
Kristine McLonis
Out of the State House maps in the running, this comes the closest to achieving partisan fairness.
Marie J Schwan
Delta Township is a suburb of Lansing, and we share interests with that voting block. Do not include us with rural areas such as Charlotte, Vermontville, etc. This makes no sense.
Paula McCloy
Eaton County cannot have more than 2 state reps to represent us. This is not manageable with a Barry-Eaton Health Dept. We need to be linked with Barry County in some way, and NOT include regions like Delta Township who have completely different demographics and needs.
Nomi Joyrich
ALL of the House maps are inherently unfair and desperately need to be reworked. That being said, Hickory is the BEST OF THE BAD.
KAREN T SANTELLI
This map does a great job of keeping the greater GR metro suburbs of East Grand Rapids, Kentwood, and Cascade Township together! The all share school districts, public services, along with shopping and business districts.
Marla Weber
Allegan County belongs together. I do not agree with the 'caterpillar' district down the lakeshore. This does not represent my community.
Naomi Ludman
I am giving this a like because we are now faced with choosing the best from bad options. This map comes the closest to partisan fairness and we in Cass County are at least connected north to Decatur and Paw Paw with which we do share some connections. Going north is better than going East.
Tamilyn Poll
Allegan County needs to be kept as one district. Carving it into different districts isn't in the best interest of our residents. Leave the lakeshore in the Allegan County district. We don't want other districts representing our valuable lakeshore resource. Carving up our county for political gain is gerrymandering and we won't accept that.
Tamilyn Poll
Allegan County needs to remain as one district. We need our lakeshore to be included. Carving up counties into multiple districts is gerrymandering.
Jimmie Wilson Jr.
I like what you did with the 32nd district and kept Ypsilanti Township together as well as add in a community of interest by adding a few precincts from superior township as well.
Ed Saunders
I know drawing 110 State House districts is inherently harder. But, unfortunately none of the current maps is fair.
They all give a majority of seats to the minority of voters!
I hope you can find a way to do much better. If you MUST choose, Hickory is the best current collaborative map. If you do select Commissioner-initiated maps, the Szetela State House map is even better.
Cherylyn Conklin-Reed
This map does not keep Allegan county together. Existing geographical lines and counties should be kept together as much as possible. Spreading districts across multple counties and creating fingerling districts like the one at the lakeshore of Allegan county is purely political and gerrymandering. Keep Allegan county together!
Ruth A Kell
The only acceptable House Map for my district is Pine V5, because it does not split the city of Troy. Troy is a COI and should not be divided, least of all to be combined with part of Macomb County, which has different business needs.
Sara Fink
I appreciate how difficult meeting all the criteria is for each kind of map, but fairness is a vital criterion which none of these House maps meet. The MICRC has met that criterion in its State Senate and Congressional map proposals, but none of the proposed State House maps are fair in apportioning the most House seats to the party which wins the most votes, based on the last two Presidential elections. Instead all of the maps have a strong lean toward one party, though that lean is slightly less pronounced than currently enacted maps. I'm sure the Commission can do better.
Richard Paas
These districts for Grand Rapids actually keep most of the actual sections in a reasonable way between Grandville, East GR, Wyoming, and downtown.
Pei-Lan Tsou
I really appreciate that the Hispanic district finally have someone that can represent the community.
Pei-Lan Tsou
Thank you for keeping the 6-cities together. Especially Walker/Grandville/NW GR as a community of interest since they share the same school district.
Pei-Lan Tsou
Thank you for listening to us residents of Cascade township and keeping us in with the Grand Rapids metro. We are suburban GR people, really don't belong with the farm land! I also appreciate you keeping the Grand Rapids airport in with the metro.
Helen Goyings
This map is the least unfair of the three map. It keeps COI together and is the least gerrymandered maps of all three
Frank Lynn
Having East Grand Rapids and Kentwood in the same district makes logical sense for the Grand Rapids metropolitan area. Good job.
Frank Lynn
Thanks for keeping Wyoming city together. This map keeps the Grand Rapids area Latinx community together for the first time. Great map!
Elizabeth Buckner
I’m so disappointed that this is the best anyone could come up with. Why would anyone think dividing a community is a good idea. Farmington and Farmington Hills is one community.
VANESSA MULNIX
Ridiculous dissection of Jackson County. Not based on COI.
James Bantjes Jr.
The commission is intentionally carving up counties into multiple districts for political gain. This is gerrymandering! Leave it alone!
Denise Thornton
This is not good for Livingston County.
Katharine Shishkovsky
The purpose of the Commission was to draw maps that were fair and as close to being 50-50 between Republicans and Democrats as possible. It can be done. House Representative elections in 2018 and 2020 and the Mayoral race in 2019 had very narrow margins, which indicate to me that Livonia is a purple city. Keep Livonia in one House District! Please work to make these maps with partisan fairness as a primary goal.
Ronald Emaus
This map does not represent the voices of the people. It is partisan and non-competitive in its district compositions. None of the house district maps are balanced. A new map should be constructed to provide batter balance. It can be done.
Katharine Shishkovsky
I have testified before the Commission twice in person, at least twice on Zoom, and written several comments over the last few months. I have been ignored. I am not too concerned about the State Senate Districts, but I am very unhappy with Livonia being split into three House Districts for several reasons: the citizens in Livonia will be confused about who their Representatives are; the Mayor will have a problem trying to work out problems with House Reps, especially if they don't agree on an issue; the City Clerk will have a hell of a time trying to make sure that all citizens get accurate ballots at election time, much less make sure enough ballots are printed and are accurate. In addition, Livonia has little in common with the City of Detroit -- particularly the Brightmoor neighborhood of Detroit. How are the Brightmoor residents going to be fairly represented? The Brightmoor residents deserve representation. Where do you think candidates and electeds will come from? From the places with resources, that is where, and that means Livonia and Redford, whose residents will have the money and volunteers to support candidates. The residents of the City of Detroit will not be represented adequately in all of these House Districts where Districts are being gerrymandered with suburban and city populations. Who do you think the elected Representatives will listen to? The people with the money, that's who. And that does not mean the people in Brightmoor and other blighted areas of Detroit that are drawn into districts with suburban areas. I want partisan fairness as well -- but the people of Detroit deserve representation which focuses on their issues.
Dan and Chris Davis
• Allegan County belongs together. I do not agree with the 'caterpillar' district down the lakeshore. This does not represent my community.
Dan Ngo
Thank you for keeping Troy whole. While this map is not where I want it to be in terms of partisan fairness, it is less of a republican gerrymander compared to the other drafts. You can do better though still
Anna Hicks
This map is blatantly partisan. So much for being impartial. This is a ridiculous carve out of Jackson County. Shame. Please select the Magnolia map as it is the least partisan.
Lori Ross
The revised house map does not serve the City of Flint well, as our city should not be placed in a single district. Today, Flint has two districts (the 34th and the 49th) with the 34th guaranteeing Flint representation and the 49th allowing a second opportunity for representation. The map proposed here completely forecloses the chance for two representatives, instead packing all of Flint into a single district which also would have the effect of creating a clear partisan gerrymander since Flint is an overwhelmingly Democratic city. The commission should look to submitted map P7273 which would allow for Flint to have confidence in one seat with the opportunity for a second seat. Flint should not have to suffer another decade in a partisan gerrymander. Please do not pack all of our city into a single district.
Essence Wilson
Flint should not be grouped into one single district. Doing so creates a clear partisan gerrymander that packs Democratic voters into a single district, something that this commission was created to prevent. “Keeping Flint Whole” did not and does not mean to keep the city in a single state house district. Rather, it means ensuring that the city has a chance to elect a representative of its own. This can be accomplished in submitted map P7273 while also allowing for an opportunity for a second seat as Flint has today. Please, revise this map to ensure that Flint has a clear opportunity for representation with a chance for a second representative as we have today, and please do not pack Flint into a single district. We don’t need 10 more years of a partisan gerrymander.
Janice Sovak
All of the State House maps are unfair. This one (Hickory) is better than the others, but still unfair from partisan perspective. Commissioners, please keep working on this to achieve real fairness. You can do it, as you've done with US Congressional and Mich State Senate maps.
Susan Vandercook
All of the House maps are unfair but this at least unpacks the Democrats in the Lansing area. Maybe should look at redrawing a new House map.
Russell Jennings
I dislike this map.
C Ann Maki
This map seems to be the least skewed of the bunch.
Gregory Newman, City Clerk
A section of the City of Grand Ledge is separated from the rest of the City. This will create a precinct split in Ward 3. Please consider placing the entire City of Grand Ledge in a single State House district.
Mary Anne Hohmann
Thank you for your work on the US Congressional and State Senate maps! Please continue working on the State House maps for as long it takes to make them too as fair and non-partisan as the Congressional and State House maps. It is so important that for the next 10 years, Michigan citizens can be confident that when they vote, their candidate for the State House has an fair shot at winning. Thank you in advance for your time and continued hard work on the State House maps.
Caitlyn Perry Dial
This map represents the three interest areas of Livingston county well. This map is also balanced and fair.
James Robert
Under the current map, anyone with an "R" after their name wins, leading to poor quality leadership. This map would, help bring qualified people into the race on both sides.
Steve Revor
The only reason to break up Allegan County is for explicit, partisan reason and is the definition of gerrymandering.
Keep Allegan Co. as one district.
Beverly Stevenson
This map provides the most fair representation.
Jordan Genso
As a local Realtor, I think this map does a fine job using the I-96 corridor and US-23 corridor to make a district that's similar to how potential buyers would view the area when deciding where to house hunt. Many people who consider moving to the area commute eastward on I-96 for work, and have Brighton as the western edge of their search area, and search east from there. That this district looks like a map search I'd have set up for a client makes me think it'd be pretty appropriate for a House district.
Katie Juros
Breaking up Allegan County is a partisan way to gerrymander
Lori Cowan
I appreciate all the work of the commission. Of all the maps, I believe the Hickory map is the best, the least partisan. I have worked in Ann Arbor for 30 plus years, so splitting up Livingston County and Ann Arbor as well, to combine, truly makes sense.
Leah Folkert
Keep Allegan Co. together!!
Chris Andrews
Hickory is by far the best choice. None of the state House maps are fair and you should consider finding a better map-- perhaps Fair Maps project. But if you won't, Hickory is the best way to go. Thanks for unpacking the Lansing area.
David Tharp
The Hickory map is definitely not one which supports the interest of our community. My family does not see how this map could possibly be the right one. Our interests and activities are in Brighton area, we do nothing in the city of Ann Arbor. Genoa Township is supported by the Brighton Fire Department and attends the Brighton Area Schools. This map does not represent our needs or interests and would separate us from our true community.
Lisa
There have been numerous requests from the residents of Pontiac, Waterford and Auburn Hills regarding this messed up district, why have you not fixed it? Pontiac and AH residents have asked that they be combined and Waterford has asked to remain whole, with all communities noting that the current layout does NOT reflect any of the local COIs. Why are you splitting the communities and combining them in unusual and ineffectual ways? Appears to be laziness or partisanship, either way needs to be corrected. Fix this!
andrew seiler
While no map is perfect, this really is the best one because it is so close to partisan fairness.
Jason B Negri
As I said in the Zoom meeting itself, Hamburg Township should properly be placed with the rest of Livingston County and not combined with Ann Arbor. This map seems more politically motivated than anything else. Use the Magnolia map!
Leslie Baker
I am strongly opposed to the Hickory Map, and I strongly support the Magnolia Map. Please keep our community whole and do not intermingle us with the city of Ann Arbor and the county of Washtenaw. We have very little in common with Ann Arbor on multiple fronts and it is not part of my Community of Interest. Furthermore, this map actually ignores my Community of Interest, which I've described in previous comments, and this current map is totally unacceptable! Again: YES to the Magnolia Map and NO to the Hickory Map! Thank you.
Aaron Haury
Among the collaborative maps, this one is the best. However, the commission is encouraged to vote to accept a new submission because each proposed House map gives the majority of seats to the minority of voters! Please Keep Working! None reflect Communities of Interest adequately.
Kevin Miedema
I really don't think having these Lake Shore districts makes sense. I understand the Lake shore has unique challenges. however everyone in the County has a stake in this lakeshore. Allegan County is very cut up. County lines need to be respected as best they can be. This map has my district being a hour + drive wide - meanwhile my neighbors in laketown township are not represented by same person. (haven't seen anything different for my distict on any of these so far)
Paul Hauglie
I dislike this map. It does not keep Jackson county whole and needlessly divides it. How do you justify Jackson county going from 2 representatives to 4? Jackson county should never be lumped into the same district as Ann Arbor, unless gerrymandering is the goal.
Paul Hauglie
I dislike this map. It does not keep Jackson county whole and needlessly divides it. How do you justify Jackson county going from 2 representatives to 4? Jackson county should never be lumped into the same district as Ann Arbor, unless gerrymandering is the goal.
Paul Hauglie
I dislike this map. It does not keep Jackson county whole and needlessly divides it. How do you justify Jackson county going from 2 representatives to 4? Jackson county should never be lumped into the same district as Ann Arbor, unless gerrymandering is the goal.
Paul Hauglie
I dislike this map. It does not keep Jackson county whole and needlessly divides it. How do you justify Jackson county going from 2 representatives to 4? Jackson county should never be lumped into the same district as Ann Arbor, unless gerrymandering is the goal.
Jared Boot
Among the collaborative maps, this one is the best. However, the commission is encouraged to vote to accept a new submission because each proposed House map gives the majority of seats to the minority of voters! Please Keep Working! None reflect Communities of Interest adequately.
Tyler Hammock
This map must be voted down, this does not keep our community whole and places us with washtenaw County and the Ann arbor area, we have absolutely nothing in common with either community. This map does not respect our community of interest. We share absolutely zero services like fire, EMS, or police with Ann arbor or washtenaw County. This map is no good, the City of Brighton, Brighton twp and Genoa must remain as one community as many who live if not most are in the Brighton school district and receive service from the Brighton Area Fire Authority. Ann Arbor has nothing in common with us.
Diane Finke Lenk
I am in support of Hickory. I find myself frequenting both the Ann Arbor area - friends, health care, book club etc. Also friends and family in this part of Oakland County. I find all these areas easily accessible which is greatly appreciated. Seems like all have lots in common and are part of a greater community. Please accept Hickory as House District 48. Diane Lenk, Green Oak Township
Regina Hastings
This map makes no sense. The I 94 corridor is not a community. But that interstate highway is all this map has in common. Instead, leave Jackson Co alone.
Sue Matthes Hadden
I have concerns about all of the house maps but this is the best choice presented so far and if chosing from the current maps, this is closest to approaching partisan fairness.
Richard Wochoski
I'm not seeing any difference between this and the Szetlana House Map. I've spot checked 10 districts and the two maps seem the same. Splitting Troy seems like a bad idea, as does the splitting of other cities. How can a community agree on what it takes to grow and prosper when half the community is represented by different people? Every effort should be made to keep a city whole. Then use parcelling out to make up the discrepancies. I agree with most respondents to this map: try, try again.
Glen Miller
I like the Hickory map the best. Not perfect but… it breaks up Livingston County which needs to be done. Almost no one works in Livingston and they travel to to Ingam or Washtenaw county for work and pleasure. They need to be grouped together. Please a fair map is all we want. Fair for all. Thank You
Christopher Mark Ariss
I favor the Hickory map the best, I like the districting in this way so as Livingston County can be included in with surrounding areas. I work in Oakland County, others in Washtenaw, etc. I think this works best.
Daniel D Luria
I think the Hickory map's splitting of Livingston County makes a lot of sense. Hamburg Twp in southern Livingston is closely tied to both Ann Arbor and western Washtenaw with shared trails, recreation areas, and of course the Huron River and its chain of lakes. Hamburg Twp has almost no cultural, political, or demographic ties to the rural parts of its county to its north and west. Brighton and Green Oak Twps are really part of what might be called the "greater South Lyon area" -- essentially, bedroom suburbs for people commuting south to Ann Arbor or west to Novi/Farmington Hills.
Lindsey Brayton
This map is not balanced and unfairly represents urban areas
Katie Valencia
I do not agree with this re-districting. The 'caterpillar' district down the lakeshore does not keep Allegan county together and does not represent my community. No this is not good.
Christine Graves Klykken
Of all of the maps this Hickory map seems to be the fairest. There still appears to be a big Republican swing to this map, but it's less so than some of the other map choices.
Mark Forbes
Keep Allegan County together!
Preserve and respect geographical boundaries, specifically county lines
The commission is intentionally carving up counties into multiple districts for political gain. This is gerrymandering!
Allegan County belongs together. I do not agree with the 'caterpillar' district down the lakeshore. This does not represent my community.
The only reason to break up Allegan County is for explicit, partisan reason and is the definition of gerrymandering.
Mary L Stull
The commission is intentionally carving up counties into multiple districts for political gain. This is gerrymandering!
melissa vandermeulen
Keep Allegan County together.
Cynthia Richardson
I do not like the Hickory State House map. It combines RURAL Waterloo Township/ Jackson County with much of eastern of Ann Arbor, Pinckney and west Brighton(???) which absolutely makes NO sense. Parks do not need THAT much legislation attention over day to day resident needs which is clearly the point of this map. Ann Arbor and Brighton communities have more public service offerings, widely available broadband, and public transportation. Most rural areas, like Waterloo Township, have none of these things. Rural communities, like Waterloo Township, have VERY different needs and require different legislative representation. Please use the SZETELA State House map. It better represents my community. Thank you.
Brian Boyer
This proposed map unnecessarily combines Jackson County with other neighboring areas, greatly splitting up our current Community of Interest. Please do adopt this map.
Jim Hanson
Allegan County is getting big. It's no longer appropriate to jam it all into one district (and certainly not with a long string of other areas that are completely unrelated, as was done in 2010). I like this map, it recognizes communities of interest along the lakeshore, and it seems to be fair
Lisa S
Please Keep Working! There are no fair MI House maps to choose from!
Doug Swartz
The Hickory State House map does not keep the counties whole. It instead combines the eastern portion of Jackson County with Washtenaw County. Magnolia and this map were the worst for Jackson County. Please do not adopt this map. The alternate Pine State House map is the better map to go with please. Thank you.
Denzel A McCampbell
You must recognize the historic imbalance of putting Detroit communities in a district with Livonia. With this map, it seems a like a great possibility that interests of Detroiters will be ignored. This is not a good map.
Kristine Yeutter
I don't agree with this map. You have gerrymandered our little county to get your "correct" number of voters at the cost of splitting communities of interest previously submitted. This violates the constitutional rules the committee agreed to abide by.
JEFFREY YEUTTER
You have split our county (Lenawee) into four house districts. This will be a nightmare for elections and our county clerk. This undermines the principle of communities of interest when you take small portions of our county and place them with other counties. This is especially true when you place townships in our rural northeast with metropolitan Washtenaw County. This map looks more gerrymandered than when the House did the redistricting,
Kimberly Mulvihill
I think this map is okay. It does improve bipartisanship and reduces gerrymandering. It is aligning the city of Jackson more with Ann Arbor and the farmland of the area more with the farming areas. It seems to be a good step in the right direction of equal representation.
Jonathan Levine
This map fails criterion d, no disproportionate advantage to any political party. Please ensure that the State House maps distribute representatives in line line the parties' statewide vote.
Jackie Leslie
Not a good map for Jackson County
Jennifer Austin
None of the State House maps achieve the partisan fairness scores they should because they all lean in favor of Republicans. Every district drawn for the Midland House is heavily biased in favor of Republicans instead of giving the area a competitive district. If I have to choose between the 3, the Hickory map is the most fair. Even if I’m unable to have a competitive district for Midland, I want the rest of the state to have a good map. Hickory keeps all the alterations made to the Detroit area to increase majority-minority districts and improve the representation of COI’s in that area, and also has the lowest lopsided margin and efficiency gap numbers. Hickory is the best map of the 3 for the state.
Jennifer Biddinger
The I-94 corridor is not a community! It is an interstate Hwy that connects the community of Jackson to the community of Ann Arbor. We do not have common interests with Ann Arbor.
Rick L Catherman
This map, especially in my area, will allow the residents with the most common interests along the lakeshore to be represented appropriately in Lansing. I thank the commission for listening to the many citizens that encouraged such a lakeshore community of interest to be represented in this manner.
Allison L Brink
Allegan County belongs together. I do NOT agree with the carving out of the lakeshore. This does not represent our community, and appears to be for explicit, partisan reasons. Preserve and respect geographic boundaries, specifically by keeping county lines.
Cass County has just received a raw deal on all these maps. Dowagiac is the only city in the county. This map carves it out and separates it from the community college in the county that is located just outside the city limits; it separates the elder housing for the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians from the land that houses their administrative tribal headquarters--it's just a travesty.
William Swift
What a lovely map. It really captures most of the county well. All basically the same inside the boundaries with common interests and whatnot.
Bernard Allore
City folks don't understand the issues and needs of farming communities. This map lumps urban and rural areas together and this will leave farmers without a voice because there is such a lack of ties to agriculture today. Please keep Jackson County together in one district. I am a senior citizen and I rely on services in my community of Jackson. Thank you.
Lisa S Kamil
The House maps are ALL unfair. Please use your time to redo the House maps. Thank you
Yalcin Yanikoglu
None of the house maps are Politically fair. Please fix that.
Barbara Dame
This maps splits up Jackson County and the community of interest it serves! Priority should be based on community of interest. This is partisan gerrymandering. Please remember that the law states that districts should not provide a disproportionate advantage for any political party.
John Sauter
I can't understand why all these maps split up Ann Arbor. Ann Arbor is a fairly homogenous population and it should be represented as such, not diluted with neighboring areas with very different makeup. It has very little in common with the neighboring communities. Ypsilanti was kept together and a lot of other areas, Why is Ann Arbor split up?
Margaret Bayless
While I don't think any of the State House maps is very fair, this is the best of the current options.
Bill Richardson
I do not like the Hickory State House map. It combines rural Waterloo Township in Jackson County with much of the city of Ann Arbor. Ann Arbor has public utilities, widely available broadband, and public transportation. Waterloo Township has none of these things. These different communities have different needs and require different legislative representation. Please adopt instead the “Szetela” State House map. It does a much better job of satisfying the ‘communities of interest’ objective for Jackson County. Thank you.
Ann
We support the Magnolia map as it keeps our community of interest together. We oppose the Hickory map as it splits where we live away from the rest of our community. We live in Genoa Township. We have a Brighton address and live in the Brighton school district. We are part of the Brighton fire authority. We live near the Brighton Recreation Area. We go to church in Brighton. We shop in Brighton. We belong in the same district as Brighton and not with Ann Arbor. Thank you.
Kasey Helton
I live north of Pinckney so just north of 48th district, and I really like this map. This map acknowledges the clear community of interest that is defined by the Chain of Lakes which includes areas in both Livingston and Washtenaw County. The problems of environmental pollution do not respect county lines. Environmental pollution that exists in our waterway does not acknowledge county boundaries, and this area needs representatives who will give consideration to the problems that exist there, which has been difficult so far given the political gridlock. A map like this for our area gives people here hope for a possible cleanup and legislation that would prevent more pollution from happening. As a close neighbor to this region, people who live along the lakes have their own connection to each other that is defined by a desire to live in a clean and beautiful area free from pollution. I think the district that I live in (the 53rd) does a decent job of preserving the rural connections of this district.
TIMOTHY B DEBLAEY
Again, ignoring the economic opportunities of the southwestern shoreline communities.
Justin Voss
This map makes no sense. Rural areas of Clinton County should be with other like communities in Ionia, Montcalm, and Gratiot County rather than with urban areas of Lansing which have different interests.
Jazmine Early
WHAT A MESS! As an immigrant I am disappointed that our state has spent so much time with this and this is what you come out with? You make things works for our community. NO WAY JOSE your should accept this map.
Jazmine Early
WHAT A MESS! As an immigrant I am disappointed that our state has spent so much time with this and this is what you come out with? You make things works for our community. NO WAY JOSE your should accept this map.
Jazmine Early
WHAT A MESS! As an immigrant I am disappointed that our state has spent so much time with this and this is what you come out with? You make things works for our community. NO WAY JOSE your should accept this map.
Luke Dornon
Splitting Zeeland from Holland looks like packing to me.
Joel Arnold
This map does not serve the needs of Flint well, and it certainly does not advance the goals of partisan fairness. For most of the last decade, Flint has had not one but two representatives in the state house. Rather than follow the example provided by map P7273 which provided for Flint to have one district that would clearly be represented by a Flint resident with a chance for a second seat as exists today, this map ensures that Flint will have only one representative with no chance for a second. Additionally, this map does not advance partisan fairness and packs Democratic voters into a single, overwhelmingly Democratic district. This kind of mapping is the very definition of partisan gerrymandering. Please change this district line to allow for two chances for a Flint representative, following the example of map P7273.
Joel Arnold
This map does not serve the needs of Flint well, and it certainly does not advance the goals of partisan fairness. For most of the last decade, Flint has had not one but two representatives in the state house. Rather than follow the example provided by map P7273 which provided for Flint to have one district that would clearly be represented by a Flint resident with a chance for a second seat as exists today, this map ensures that Flint will have only one representative with no chance for a second. Additionally, this map does not advance partisan fairness and packs Democratic voters into a single, overwhelmingly Democratic district. This kind of mapping is the very definition of partisan gerrymandering. Please change this district line to allow for two chances for a Flint representative, following the example of map P7273.
Md. Asif Hasan
It’s not okay for our community.
Patrick D Maguire
This one gets it close, but not quite. Salem Twp. needs to be with South Lyon AND Lyon Twp. as all of it is really part of the greater "South Lyon" area and share the same school district, mailing address, shopping, dining, etc. This is really considered one community and should not be split up.
Robert
There is no valid justification or explanation for carving, inexplicably, the Emerald Lakes neighborhood out of Troy. First, Troy should be kept as one district, and the commission should not rely on an arbitrary line of John R. However, to the extent the commission relies on John R as a boundary, there is no explanation for why the map should reach across the road and carve out the Emerald Lakes. The neighborhood is closely related to the rest of Troy and I can imagine no reason to distinguish it from other areas west of John R. No rhyme or reason for this change, which was not included in the original maps. It constitutes an unnecessary division of basic communities of interest, municipal and county boundaries.
Nikkia Hurlbert
Please choose this map. Again, it unpacks Ann Arbor along the I-94 corridor and improves partisan fairness. Jackson especially needs proportionate representation that accounts for its urban citizens. Please choose improved partisan fairness with this map.
Gloria Llamas
Thank you for all you hard work. Partisan fairness is so extremely important for elected officials to be accountable. Thank you for especially important unpacking of Ann Arbor
This is the best map so far please use this map.
Jennifer Jones Barnes
Partisan fairness is crucial and most of the maps have not reached that BUT thank you for unpacking Ann Arbor! It it a step in the right direction.
John Wysor
This map is not perfect, but is better on partisan fairness than the others, a key factor for me. Importantly, it also would unpack Ann Arbor.
Robert T King
Thanks for all your work. I think partisan fairness is extremely important for elected officials to be accountable & while I wish there was a higher degree of partisan fairness, this map is better than others for partisan fairness, Especially important was unpacking Ann Arbor. Thanks again for all your work on a very difficult task.
Edward McTaggart
I feel this is likely the best map from the perspective of partisan fairness - I appreciate the 'unpacking' of Ann Arbor!
JILL HASEN
this map is good on partisan fairness
Edward Ian Robinson
This map is well short of perfect, but it is nevertheless the best from a partisan fairness standpoint, of those that are on offer. Partisan fairness is critical. I appreciate the fact that you unpacked Ann Arbor in this map. Please go with this map.
Kat Brausch
This map is more fair from a partisan standpoint than the other maps. Please adopt this map.
Fred Klein
Please use this map. It is the least partisan and splits Ann Arbor which helps fairly represent the many that live there.
Edward McTaggart
This map looks like a significant improvement over previous in promoting partisan fairness - I appreciate that Ann Arbor was "unpacked" in this map
Patrick M Ulanowicz
This map is pretty fair. I'm happy with this.
Noah Goldberg
Thank you for this fair map that doesn't pack Ann Arbor into its own district.
Mary O'Neill
I like this map as it is a better representation of communities of interest. I collected signatures for VNP to get Fair maps.
Nancy Johnson
I like the Hickory district map the best as it represents my community, often called the "Chain of Lakes." The Huron River flows through the lakes and we'd like to keep them together in one district. Thank you!
Steve Haag
I dislike this map, because it splits my Detroit neighborhood, East English Village, into two districts.
Emily Kallunki-Pasternak
For our Brighton household with jobs in Oakland and Washtenaw Counties and cultural/social/retail lives that cross these same borders these districts match our community of interest criteria
Joe Fresard
This map looks very gerrymandered. People voted for an amendment that prioritized COI's over many other factors, and also looked at compactness and municipal boundaries. This map doesn't seem to consider any of those and is not what people voted for. Don't slice up SCS into so many districts, and keep Harper Woods with the Grosse Pointes, they are a community of interest.
merlin steffes
If one goes to districtr.org and plugs in the districts for Kent County, they will find out that the democrat controlled "Independent Commission" has created 5 democrat leaning districts and the equivalent of 2 republican leaning districts. Kent County is a republican leaning county but an uniformed person who views the district majorities would think Kent County is just like Wayne County. Now the democrat controlled "Independent Commission" has been creating this type of districting around the whole state. Actually the democrat controlled "Independent Commission" hired a company with democrat party connections to create these districts. The democrat controlled "Independent Commission" just gives the maps created their stamp of approval. Gerrymandering it is called.
Lisa DiRado
None of the State House maps are fair, but this is the best of the three bad maps. I don’t mind that Northville is split, because it has been split in our house district for the last 10 years and it was fine! We had HD 20 and HD38. We need fair districts, so we end up with competitive districts and don't end up with extremist elected officials.
Cindy Michniewicz
I really like this map because it is the only map that keeps the Huron Chain of Lakes and its watershed together. The Huron Chain of Lakes is in the townships of Hamburg (where I live and serve as a Township Trustee), Webster, Dexter as well as the portion of Putman township that surrounds Portage Lake. We currently have a "Do not Eat the Fish" order because of PFAS in the Huron Chain of Lakes, so it is important to keep it entirely in one district. This map also keeps the Pinckney and Waterloo Rec Areas in this district.
Chris Roosen
This map is the worst because it splits the Western Wayne County Northville Community in two, and places half of our Township with Ann Arbor. All of this was caused by you ignoring the concerns of Detroit Voters, and "unpacking" Detroit into the suburbs. Go back, listen to Detroit voices, and give them what they want. You can then keep Livonia in one district and Northville in one district. There is NO REASON to split these communities, which already have very competitive House Districts 19 and 20 in the present State House.
Kelly Jones
Please do NOT split Troy as a city we are the largest city in Oakland County. We should NOT be split, and should not be represented with Macomb County residents. We are a distinct community and should remain represented within Oakland County
Ehsan Taqbeem
Bad map, doesn't serve the COI, please delete
merlin steffes
Badly gerrymandered to gift the democrats permanent control and silencing the voices of opposition to the left wingers. Do not use.
Zach Rudat
At the very least I would understand a Lansing or East Lansing based seat dipping into Bath or DeWitt, but anything beyond that into Clinton County makes no sense from a COI standpoint. The Clinton County/Grand Ledge district you guys initially had maintained the County COI and created a competitive seat. Had you kept that, took Delta Township and the western part of Lansing Township into the rest of Eaton County, you still would have ended up with 4 dem seats and a swing seat like you have on this. If we're going to accept that cities can be COIs we should be doing the same with counties too. Please take Capital region COIs into more consideration.
Terri McCormick
Disagreeing with Daniel Grams, Troy is a solidly cohesive community. This map unnecessarily splits the east edge into Sterling Heights, which dilutes the votes of Troy's diverse demographic blocs. Please keep Troy whole!
Lisa
Districts 52,53 and 54 are still bad, no matter what number you give them. You have not, in months, addressed the concerns of the Waterford, Auburn Hills, Pontiac, Oxford, Lake Orion and Bloomfield residents, who have asked that these districts be corrected. The comment I heard several times was it was too much work. All these residents will be stuck with inadequate representation for 10 YEARS using these districts; FIX THIS!
Angelo D Guarnieri
Separating Allen Park and Melvindale does a HUGE disservice to the children that attend school in the Mel-NAP school district. Having two Reps wouldn't help them when one would be mainly focused on Dearborn issues.
Dan Wholihan
This map needs to get voted down as the partisan gerrymander that it is. This isn't partisan fairness, but exactly the opposite of any real definition. Ann Arbor, A city of 125,000 should not have four representatives, and should not be representing its cultural opposite. This map splits Ann Arbor four ways at the expense of rural Livingston, rural/suburban Jackson, and far suburban Oakland Counties. It also has nothing in common with the Brighton area of Livingston County, especially Genoa Township. I can walk outside, go across the street to state land and shoot my firearms legally. Ann Arbor politicians would ban firearms completely. In addition, the Brighton area is split, with Genoa and Hamburg in a district with Waterloo and Lyndon Twp (Chelsea north) and Ann Arbor, but not its neighbors of Brighton, Brighton Township, and Green Oak which is our own community of interest. All we have in common with Waterloo is a rec area and rural character. The City of Brighton, Brighton Twp, and Green Oak on the other hand are in a district with part of split Lyon Township which isn't too crazy, but also with Wixom and Eastern Commerce? Livingston County doesn't belong with Oakland County east of Napier Road for a State House District. Nothing against Wixom and Eastern Commerce, but I'm sure it has a lot more in common with Novi, the rest of Commerce, or West Bloomfield near Haggerty than with parts west of Napier and in another county. The Brighton area needs to be kept together. Ann Arbor should be split once for State House. Both rural and urban areas should have representation for our own different communities.
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