Redistricting App (http://www.gardow.com/davebradlee/redistricting/launchapp.html) lets you draw congressional districts the way you think they should be. It uses real data from the U.S. Census Bureau, and will be updated soon with the 2010 census data.

Redistricting Task Force Website: (Legislative Task Force on Demographic Research and Reapportionment) http://www.latfor.state.ny.us

-NY will lose 3 Assembly seats statewide, most likely west of the Mohawk Valley since we have the smallest increase in population (2000: 18,976,457 vs. 19,378,050 in 2010).

-NY will lose 2 Congressional seats, again, west of the Mohawk Valley due to population decline (down to 27 seats).

-Census data will arrive from the Feds within the next three weeks.

-Public Input Forums will be held this year. Information will be on the website above.

-Task Force will present a package to Governor Cuomo at the end of the year, which he will either approve or veto. If he vetos it keeps going back and forth until it gets approved.

-The Task Force will consist of from 6-9 people, and the complete makeup has not been decided yet, but confirmed members are Bob Oaks, Brian Kolb, Carl Heastie, and Mike Nozzolio. They can all be contacted with your input.

-Prisoners: For Congressional Districts, they are counted where they are incarcerated. For Assembly districts, they are counted at their last known address.

-Snowbirds who stay in Florida at little as 3 months of the year are many times counted in Florida, not New York as they should be.

-For 2010, they need to make congressional districts contain 707,000 people per district with an allowed variance of +/- 5%. Assembly districts are 129,000 ppd and Senate districts are 312,000 ppd.
-All options are supposedly on the table, including making Monroe County its own district.

Contact Info:
Assemblyman Bob Oaks: oaksr@assembly.state.ny.us
Josh Jensen: jensen@senate.state.ny.us