Comments on: packing the house – how are those districts drawn?

By: I support CA prop 11 - redistricting reform « All About Voting

I support CA prop 11 - redistricting reform « All About Voting — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 00:20:23 +0000

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By: do-it-yourself gerrymandering « All About Voting

do-it-yourself gerrymandering « All About Voting — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 20:24:50 +0000

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By: AllAboutVoting

AllAboutVoting — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 21:02:37 +0000

Clay I have a post on just that ready to go out in a few days.

By: Clay Shentrup

Clay Shentrup — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 20:20:29 +0000

Curious that we're not discussing Warren Smith's shortest splitline algorithm.

By: N

Tue, 17 Jul 2007 19:08:11 +0000

Redistricting IS one of the greatest problems with our system since it’s inseption. This practice creates a “Home Field” advantage for the incumbent (especially when his/her party is already in control) by making sure that this individual keeps getting voted into office. To defeat this, a challanger has to raise exhorbent sums of money which ofcourse put them in danger of being a “pocket aide” of the people who “put” them their. Before we can fix the national party system, we have to start making local reforms and get more people from various socio/ethnic backrounds involved.

By: Clay Shentrup

Clay Shentrup — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 18:39:09 +0000

PR is a good idea Bob – and would essentially solve the Gerrymandering problem. But if you want to get PR, you have to break up duopoly, so you have to get Range Voting.

And the upside is that Reweighted Range Voting is better and simpler than STV.

http://RangeVoting.org/RRV.html

Clay Shentrup
San Francisco
415.240.1973
thebrokenladder@gmail.com

By: Bob Richard

Bob Richard — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 17:42:25 +0000

Gerrymandering is a bad thing and I oppose it. But some folks who are working for non-partisan redistricting believe that it can perform the miracle of making single-member districts both representative and competitive at the same time. Non-partisan redistricting criteria can favor representativeness over competition, or vice versa. But single-member districts cannot provide both simultaneously.

I think that the real value of proposals for redistricting reform is that they provide an opportunity to educate people about PR.