Redistricting Reformer Speaks in Villanova

Amanda Holt, a piano teacher from Lehigh County who recently turned Pennsylvania politics on its head, spoke at a League of Women Voters of Radnor Township luncheon on Tuesday.

Holt's homemade redistricting map, which she created on an Excel spreadsheet, proved to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court that redistricting could be done lawfully with (many)

"Our founders firmly believed that unified political subdivisions offered the citizens of Pennsylvania the strongest representation possible," writes Holt on her website.

Holt told the crowd at the Overbrook Golf Club that her redistricting journey has been "a wild ride."

The fact that she showed that the districts could be created with many fewer subdivision splits with the evidence the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania needed to declare the proposed reapportionment map unconstitutional.

In the 87-page written opinion by the Court, Holt said her name was written 64 times.

"One person really can make a difference in this whole process," she said.

Had the redistricting plan created by the state's Legislative Reapportionment Commission been approved,