Drawing Fair Lines - Another Chilly Gathering

Why are Illinois citizens tackling gerrymandering with the Independent Map Amendment?
http://mapamendment.org

Join us for a conversation with your fellow neighbors about how those in power are quietly drawing themselves into the winner’s circle each November. How America’s founders didn’t see this coming, what we learned from Illinois’s 2013-14 effort and progress being made to secure the Independent Map Amendment on the 2016 ballot.
Pick-up petitions, drop-off notarized ones, or stop by for a few minutes to simply understand why your neighbors are involved.

Saturday, February 20, 2016 at 10am - 12:00pm **
Downers Grove Public Library
Conference Room A - 2nd Floor
1050 Curtiss St, Downers Grove, Illinois 60515
** stop by for a few minutes between these hours

Please RSVP by clicking the Going button at the public, Facebook event page below *or* emailing indymapsdg@gmail.com with your full name so we know who to expect to visit the conference room.

Facebook event page (available to the public with any Facebook account)
Drawing Fair Lines - Another Chilly Gathering - https://www.facebook.com/events/558568374306297/

Gerrymandering is when a political party gains an advantage during an election by manipulating the borders of voting districts. The goal is to maximize the effect of supporters’ votes and minimize the effect of opponents’ votes in order to gain or maintain power (in Illinois’s General Assembly).

“How drawing jagged lines can impact an election” a 4 minute long, cartoon-themed video by TED-Ed.
http://goo.gl/Q5Fr7K