Howard County Council Redistricting with Auto-Redistrict
Channel: Frank Hecker
Date: 2021-09-22

This video demonstrates using the free and open source Auto-Redistrict software to create district maps for a proposed expanded county council for Howard County, Maryland. The expanded council would have three districts with five members per district, for a total of fifteen members. Members would be elected within each district using ranked choice voting.

The Auto-Redistrict software was created by Kevin Baas and is available at autoredistrict.org under the terms of the GNU General Public License 3.0. The data used as input to the Auto-Redistrict software was created as described at rpubs.com/frankhecker/810352.