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Introducing the Citizen Map Corps
This group of talented citizen mappers will spearhead DTL's efforts to inform PA voters about election mapping in the critical months to come.
We're a nonpartisan resource for Pennsylvanians who want to end gerrymandering. We provide teaching resources, digital tools and data so they can draw their own election maps. Why? To prove that the people of PA are done with gerrymandering and are ready, willing and able to do the core task of democracy themselves. Watch our story on YouTube. Questions? Please contact us.
Events and class visits: 283 in 38 counties of PA
Schools and colleges involved: 155 People reached: 10,300+
Mappers registered: 6,100+ Maps worked on: 9,400+
Competition entries: 1,200+ Prize money awarded: $97k
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Our curriculum and mapping tool are making a difference with students of all ages.
Inspired by his father to never give up.
How did Lawrence Husick's Passover table combine with Ben Franklin's challenge to produce an anti-gerrymandering champion? (Video)
The leader of Draw the Lines traces its roots to the inspiration he finds in the Jimmy Stewart films he's loved since his youth.
A 1989 Time magazine cover depicting George Washington with a tear running down his cheek, headlined "Is Government Dead?" helped inspire Professor Jill Family to play a leading role in Draw the Lines.
As a child of Jewish refugees who barely escaped from World War II with their lives, Linda Breitstein grew up witnessing how precious the right to a meaningful vote could be.
Inspired as a child by JFK, Barbara Adams thinks gerrymandering is a fundamental structural problem in our democracy needing to be fixed.
In 2010, she was a 29-year-old piano teacher living near Allentown. Then she noticed something … off in how her home state ran elections. She got curious. Then she got mad. And Pennsylvania politics was in for an earthquake.
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