I think we have the equipment, the hardware and the software and the rules in place to do as good of a job of drawing all those district lines as its possible to do. Professor John Hibbing says the task becomes more difficult than just moving lines around on a map. Those decisions are certainly anything but automatic and deal with politicians careers and futures and for this reason and others constituents feel strongly about it too. Madison county is a possible target to move from the first congressional district. The county has about 35,000 people and that's how many need to move to the third district.
Some residents are active in a letter writing campaign.
We've had a good relationship with Congressman Beureter. We want to maintain that. The redistricting committee works on lines for Congressional districts and five other offices including the state legislature. The chair of the committee hopes the public stays involved in the ongoing process. We're trying to make every effort to put every piece of information on our Web site that would be valuable to any interested individual or group of individuals or entity in the state of Nebraska that might have a quote better idea.