The City of Detroit has made a handy interactive tool to compare proposed options for City Council redistricting. I’m still confused why “Election Precincts 2023” are listed when the only known update was made in 2022 before the midterm election without any record of approval by the Detroit Election Commission (DEC). The last time I know the DEC met was in August 2022 and it lasted all of 20 minutes. The Detroit Documenters covered the October 23, 2023 meeting and it seems that election security was the primary topic, but the meeting was a similar mess to what I saw in August 2022.

When were 2022 election precinct changes reviewed and approved? When were 2023 precinct updates made? Both the city council redistricting and the redistricting of statewide offices show how important and unaccounted these small precinct changes are for the people’s political representation.