Learn about the geography of your voting districts. Everyone votes with the whole state for members of the United States Senate. On average, your member of the House of Representatives has the voice for 761,168 of your neighbors. Locate your district using GovTrack. Then visit your state's website to look up other legislative bodies who represent you in the state legislature, county or parish commission, city or town council, school board, or other special districts. Examine the records of these officials prior to the upcoming November election. 

Visit the GeoCivics resource page for your state where you will find links to information from Ballotpedia on redistricting procedures and data from the United States Census Bureau. Look under "Organizations and Resources".  If your state has a redistricting website, you may find a link to that information as well. Can you understand the criteria used to make decisions about how to draw districts? Is it clear who is in charge of drawing the districts? If not, you may need to find a group that will help you navigate this information and advocate for fair representation.

You want to submit a map to your redistricting commission, but you are not quite sure where to start. Watch this video from the Redistricting Data Hub explaining one approach to local redistricting. After exploring various redistricting tools (or using one provided by your local redistricting commission) and drawing your map, provide a guide to viewers as to what is important. This example is from Carlos Perez for the El Paso County Commission in Colorado. For a state perspective, check out this report from the Wisconsin Fair Maps Project.