The Selma City Council wants to change the way people vote for council members by creating districts versus at-large voting. But mapping those districts is a complicated process and community and council members have different ideas on how to make it fair. The first set of district maps that were shown to the five-member council drew controversy at this week’s meeting. “I believe that you’re going against the very thing that you wanted to do when you create districts,” Sandi Niswander told the council. “You wanted districts so that the public could vote for people in their general area. The maps that have been proposed were drawn so that each of you have a district.” The maps were presented by a senior consultant from a well-known redistricting company Selma hired, the National Demographics Corporation , or NDC. All three maps the NDC drew had the sitting council members in separate districts, even though the members’ homes are concentrated in two neighborhoods on the east side of town
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