Resources

ELC offers resources to voters, community groups, activists, lawyers, journalists, and legislative staffers to learn about voting patterns, areas of minority underrepresentation, areas for electoral system improvement, and garner further understanding of redistricting plans with the aim to bring power to voters, not politicians.

The Election Law Clinic is proud to work in partnership with PlanScore to make redistricting fair and easy to understand by maintaining updated statistics and visualizations. PlanScore is made up of legal, political science, and mapping technology experts. With the help of code and data from election experts around the country, PlanScore scores and publishes district plans for all 50 states on an easy-to-use website.

RPVNearMe

RPV Near Me is a project of the Election Law Clinic. ELC now offers free access to summary measures of racially polarized voting (“RPV”) for every county in the country. Using techniques approved by federal courts for use in Voting Rights Act litigation, this tool provides insight into voting patterns, areas of minority underrepresentation, and areas where the electoral system could be improved. Access the user-friendly website here.

Democracy Series

DEMOCRACY was a Harvard Law School Lecture Series co-hosted by Guy Uriel-Charles, Ruth Greenwood, Lawrence Lessig, and Nicholas Stephanopoulos. This six-part series of panel discussions brought together 1,732 individuals— scholars, lawmakers, activists, and the HLS community members—to discuss and debate the most pressing issues facing American democracy.