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Ohio AG Twice Rejects Ballot Language for Citizen-Led Redistricting Commission
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Yup. They just kept submitting maps that were getting rejected for being unconstitutional and eventually the court just had to let it go because you can't just not have an election and they couldn't do anything else about it.
We need to add some kind of recourse to the rules. Something like "if you can't put together a constitutional map by the deadline, then the minority party gets to submit one for consideration instead".
Like if you can't make a constitutional map, or special election for either replacing you, (the elected officials) or a panel of people to make a map. But also I semi wonder if you could just have a computer do it. Just try to split up counties as close to 50/50
Agreed, but the goal shouldn't be 50/50, but to properly represent the people. Each area is different, but generally speaking, urban areas should form a district with other urban areas, and rural areas should form a district with other rural areas.
If the goal is to match the statewide partisan split, we should just move to proportional representation.
Right, there are some legitimate reasons to not split everything by population or affiliation. This can end up destroying the voice that some isolated minority communities have.
It's a super hard problem to find the best solution, but also super obvious when people are proposing shitty solutions for obviously immoral reasons. It would be a decent first step if we could just get to where we don't have an obviously shitty, and ultimately unconstitutional, map
That's certainly possible, but it's probably better than the alternative.
I'm in Utah, and we passed an initiative where an independent commission proposes maps for the state legislature, and the legislature ignored all of them and passed one where every district includes a part of SLC to fracture the liberal vote. So now all four representatives could live within a mile or so of each other.
Yeah is something like 65/35 Rep/Dem, yet no district is feasible to win by a Democrat.