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City Redistricting Pushback: UW-Madison Students

All of Madison’s alder districts need to have roughly the same population size. City staff and the Redistricting Committee armed with new census data are trying to make that happen. However, Alder Julia Bennett (district 8) is concerned that the proposed changes will crack the vote of UW-Madison students. The eighth alder district houses many UW-Madison students in the heart of downtown. Under the two proposed redistricting maps, large sections would be absorbed by the surrounding districts. Bennett says she’s concerned the changes will dilute the voice of UW students. “It is extremely vital to keep students together and within one district, because we understand each other, we take care of each other,” she says. “When one student faces a campus related issue it’s something that a majority of us face at the same time.”