Hey US, here’s an idea. Instead of having elected representatives sign off on electoral districts, you can instead pass a law to create electoral commissions who’s job it is, and define in the law how often redistricting should take place, what methods should be used, etc, etc.
The officials at the electoral Commission are bound by the law you set out (and presumably the extremely harsh punishments for not following the law).
This is where you define electoral boundry changes. Not via bespoke legislation where it gets gerrymandered.
A lot of other countries have figured this out, just sayin’.
Yes, that’s something which would work just fine. The situation we’re in looks like this:
The Supreme Court has ruled that partisan gerrymandering is constitutional
Republicans block anti-gerrymandering laws in the federal Senate
If one party ends gerrymandering in states they control (as Democrats started to do between 2000 and 2010) they’re effectively ceding power to the other party on a permanent basis
Hey US, here’s an idea. Instead of having elected representatives sign off on electoral districts, you can instead pass a law to create electoral commissions who’s job it is, and define in the law how often redistricting should take place, what methods should be used, etc, etc.
The officials at the electoral Commission are bound by the law you set out (and presumably the extremely harsh punishments for not following the law).
This is where you define electoral boundry changes. Not via bespoke legislation where it gets gerrymandered.
A lot of other countries have figured this out, just sayin’.
Yes, that’s something which would work just fine. The situation we’re in looks like this:
Yikes. Yeah, understandable that nothing has changed. That sucks :/