This is a basic timeline of the Quantifying Gerrymandering from its early days as an undergraduate project with Christy Vaughn to the present work in court cases such as Common Cause v. Rucho.
2013:
- PRUV Summer Project in Duke Mathematics with Christy Vaughn Graves
2014-2015:
- PRUV Summer Project and Math Independent Study and Senior Thesis with Christy Vaughn Graves
- ArXix paper published: Redistricting and the Will of the People looks at 2012 election results in NC and finds evidence of gerrymandering
2015:
- First Data+ Project Team funded by Mathematics Department (Students: Sachet Bangia, Bridget Dou, Sophie Guo; Project Manager: Christy Graves)
- Algorithm and website produced for further analysis
- GIS Tools learned/implemented
2016:
- Continuation of Data+ Project funded by Math Dept. & working with Common Cause/Tom Ross (Students: Hansung Kang, Justin Luo; Project Managers: Gregory Herschlag, Robert Ravier)
- New Java code base produced and tested
- Presentation at Sanford school
January/February 2017:
- Produce report for Common Cause vs Rucho case.
Summer 2017:
- Summer deposition: Rucho vs Common Cause
- Mattingly et al attend Beyond Gerrymandering event with Common Cause, press conference
- New website, “Quantifying Gerrymandering”, is produced
New paper published on ArXix: “Redistricting, Drawing the Line” - Produced 3 expert reports and testified in Common Cause v Rucho
August/September 2017:
- Fall 2017 collaborate with Eric Lander on his Amicus brief for Gil v Whitford.
- Discussed in oral arguments by Kagan
Fall 2017:
- Mattingly testifies at Rucho vs Common Cause trial
- Gerrymandering Conference held at Duke University with POLIS, IID, and Metric Gerrymandering Group (Tufts)
- Herschlag writes expert report in North Carolina v. Covington
- Work on Gerrymandering in PA
Summer 2018:
- New Data+ Project: Gerrymandering & the Extent of Democracy in America
- Consider Maryland
Fall 2018:
- hold SAMSI Workshop on Quantifying Gerrymandering
- The 2018-2019 Bass Connections Gerrymandering project has 10-20 undergraduate participants, and will continue the work of the Data+ 2018 project team into the 2019 academic year
Spring/Summer 2019:
- Quantifying Gerrymandering Team submits expert report to court for Common Cause v. Lewis showing extreme partisan gerrymandering in the 2017 North Carolina legislative map drawn by the N.C. General Assembly
- Jonathan Mattingly testifies in Common Cause v. Lewis.
