Amid Protest Over Closed Philadelphia Redistricting Process, Tech Firm Decides to Start Its Own
A Philadelphia software company hopes to use technology to pry open a crack in the historically closed-door process of dividing up the city into City Council districts.
Cities and states nationwide are in the final throes of redistricting, the decennial aftermath of the U.S. Census in which the country’s political boundaries are redrawn based on shifts of population and, in many cases, the shifting political winds.