The Founders intended for voters to choose their representatives.
In the age of computerized program house-by-house calculations that fine-tune gerrymandering to a science, representatives choose their voters.
Some states (including my state of California) have now outlawed gerrymandering, with districts chosen by an independent commission made up of non-political professionals appointed by Democrats, Republicans and independents that are prohibited from using or considering voter registrations and required to adhere to operationally-defined standards of compactness.
With a few notable exceptions, most of the states that have outlawed gerrymandering are “blue” Democratic states, which unfairly inhibits the ability of Democrats to draw favorable districts in some key large states, while none of the large Republican states have done so.
What we need is a federal election reform statute that eliminates gerrymandering and applies equally in all states, under the enumerated
The Founders intended for voters to choose their representatives.
In the age of computerized program house-by-house calculations that fine-tune gerrymandering to a science, representatives choose their voters.
Some states (including my state of California) have now outlawed gerrymandering, with districts chosen by an independent commission made up of non-political professionals appointed by Democrats, Republicans and independents that are prohibited from using or considering voter registrations and required to adhere to operationally-defined standards of compactness.
With a few notable exceptions, most of the states that have outlawed gerrymandering are “blue” Democratic states, which unfairly inhibits the ability of Democrats to draw favorable districts in some key large states, while none of the large Republican states have done so.
What we need is a federal election reform statute that eliminates gerrymandering and applies equally in all states, under the enumerated