AACountyCitizenShare - County Charter

County Charter

From the official Census Bureau site, anyone can use the single search bar to search on a geography such as their state, county, or place, and see an overview of that area in a geographic profile with visualizations and infographics. Because the platform is simple to use and has a search capability that points users to the data they need, they do not have to know Census Bureau jargon to use it: https://data.census.gov/cedsci/advanced
- - This looping instructional GIF shows you the steps necessary to get a "heat map" of specific racial groupings within AA county: Looping GIF (may take a minute to load)
An interactive dashboard with similar mapping capabilities is available on this Tableau Public website
- - This one-page analysis was accomplished using this tool.
  - This interactive dashboard is also available to use from within this webpage: Click here

Amicus Curiae in a Maryland Voting Rights Case (PDF) Explains concept of "Cumulative Voting" in the context of the Cane v. Worcester County voting rights case concerning county commission elections in Maryland.
redistricting.lls.edu (PDF) Addresses the "communities of interest" concept...but also confines its applicability to a "District" mode of election.
Geographic District - Inherently Undemocratic (PDF) This results in the situation the author of this article summarizes as: "It is a sad and ironic state-of-affairs that gerrymandering stubbornly remains the de-facto remedy for gerrymandering."
Unofficial History of Change to "District" Voting in Anne Arundel County, by John Hammond, longtime Budget Officer in Anne Arundel County.