CCFD has shared its technology and methods with the courts, attorneys working on redistricting cases, pro-democracy groups, academic experts and anyone involved in gerrymandering reform. We have met with lawmakers and members of their staff regarding legislative solutions to end gerrymandering. We have participated in public panels and forums, and have provided testimony in legislative settings -- particularly the PA Legislative Reapportionment Commission (LRC) for state legislative redistricting, and the PA House and Senate State Government Committees for congressional redistricting. CCFD has further provided testimony to the Governor’s listening tours and redistricting hearings.

In addition, CCFD has and will continue to submit amicus briefs on techniques to draw fair maps free of gerrymandering to the PA Supreme Court and to other courts as redistricting complaints work their way through the judicial system.

CCFD believes partisan gerrymandering can be prevented, or at least greatly restrained, by:

1. Relying on independent commissions to create legislative districts;

2. Applying rigorous design standards (see the CCFD 5-step methodology), particularly with regard to maximizing compactness and minimizing unnecessary splitting political subdivisions;

3.  Requiring transparent and open processes at all stages of district map construction. Included in this requirement: (i) Forbid private communications between drafters and consultants or legislators and constituents; (ii) Provide freely-accessible redistricting software programs, and how to use them: (iii)  Supply free and universally accessible data (except individual voting data); and (iv) Require drafters to release all proposed district boundaries and to provide transparently full explanations for the designs;

4.  Ensuring open access to the courts as neutral and last-resort arbiters of fair districts, with the judicial power to draft maps if deemed necessary.