And the Winners Are…

August 8th, 2011 • No Comments

Winner Sam Almy. Photo by Steve Muratore

We are very proud to announce the winners of Arizona’s first ever public mapping contest.

Yes, we are aware that our press conference was last week, but, hey, we are all volunteers over here! So, we are just now sending out the e-blast. Our apologies for the delay.

First, we want to thank the judges, Jose Penalosa (Rep.), Tricia Gerrodette (Ind.) and D. Jay Stanforth (Dem.), as well as our amazing contest director, Dr. Barbara Klein of the League of Women Voters of Arizona.

This was not an easy process and it took many hours of volunteer time to make happen.

Winner Glenn Jacques. Photo by Steve Muratore

The Best Congressional Maps category was won by Glenn Jacques of Phoenix and Stuart Wright of Ohio, with honorable mention going to Marcia Busching.

The Best Legislative Maps category was won by Sam Almy of Tucson and Glenn Jacques of Phoenix, with honorable mention going to Stuart Wright of Ohio.

You can download the entire report here.

Please remember that we had two best legislative and two best congressional maps because we are not trying to push any particular map. We just wanted to see who could do the best!

If you want to see all of the entries and all of the maps, you can visit and look at the shared maps. The maps from the contest are the ones with the Disney character names. We named them as such so that they would be anonymous to the judges.

Congratulations, everyone!