Redistricting influence coordination

One out of every seven comments submitted to the state's redistricting commissions matches exactly or almost exactly to another comment, signaling coordinated efforts to influence the commissions' maps. The graph shows how many comments were submitted each week since the redistricting process began, with comments that scored high using a textual similarity analysis.

*Matching comments are defined as earning a 0.9 score or greater using the Sentence Transformers semantic textual cosine similarity analysis.
Chart: Evan Wyloge Source: Redistricting commission written public comments Get the data