Defendants are asking if one of Pegden's (millions) of maps could be less compact than the enacted map.
Pegden says that you could constrain compactness by saying that no district in your comparison maps could go below the score of the least compact district. But if you do that the comparison maps have worse compactness measures than the enacted map.
Here at Campbell Law School in Raleigh today for the redistricting trial! As you can see, we haven't gotten started yet but I will be updating you as soon as we do. #ncpol
Sounds like Dr. Jowei Chen will be first up this morning.
also this is the only email given for WCPL Directors so I'll throw that in too: libraryadministration@wakegov.com
Here's the email I just sent to @wcplonline Library Commission and Directors - feel free to borrow any of the language if it helps you write an email too!
Looks like the #NCGA House Redistricting Committee meeting is about to get started, finally.
Rep. Hall says they are waiting on a number of amendments - another 10 minutes. Seems like there must have been a lot of intra-party negotiation in the past 3.5 hours.