prison gerrymandering in Senate map
My understanding is that both the updated House and Senate maps, but particularly the Senate map, do not address the problem of prison gerrymandering. I do not think it is fair for districts containing prisons to count people incarcerated in the district toward their population totals for the purpose of elected representation. Incarcerated people, if they are eligible to vote at all, vote in their last place of residence, not their place of confinement. Prison gerrymandering causes people who live in districts containing prisons to have an effectively larger vote than anyone else in Pennsylvania. This system is undemocratic. The problem is more severe in the Senate map, where districts containing prisons have population deviations greater than the size of the prison. Even allowing for the current way prison population counts are used, the Senate map is not representative of the actual distribution of voters in Pennsylvania and over-represents people living near prisons.