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Take the power to create districts away from the legislature. Give it to a non-partisan commission. 1/3 Democrats, 1/3 Republicans, and 1/3 other/no party. We d
by s73ver 9y ago
Take the power to create districts away from the legislature. Give it to a non-partisan commission. 1/3 Democrats, 1/3 Republicans, and 1/3 other/no party. We did that in California, and almost none of the legislators were happy with it, which means it probably did a good job. The state still wound up with mostly Democratic representation, but that's more a product of California being heavily Democrat. I'd imagine that if you did the same thing in Texas, even if the districts were much less gerrymandered, you'd still have mostly Republicans.
- Spivak 9y agoWoo! Enshrining the current two party system in legislation. What could possibly go wrong?
- s73ver 9y agoSo don't include them by name. Just say the two major parties. Doesn't matter, doesn't change a thing.
- zzalpha 9y agoYou're objecting to one example of an implementation when you should be focused on the idea. You can clearly define it in such a way as to not rule out multi-party representation as needed. Many other countries have cracked this nut (see Elections Canada). Of course, the history of the US political system seems to be one of NIH...
- bumblebeard 9y agoIowa's redistricting commission is truly non-partisan: no politicians are allowed to participate. Seems to work fairly well for them just looking at the maps and variety of results: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iowa's_congressional_districts https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iowa's_congressional_districts
- s73ver 9y agoEveryone's going to be somewhat political. So no politicians is a good rule, but it still would be good to know the political affiliations of the people doing the districting.
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