It has been done in a number of States, but in every case, it was done via a citizen’s initiative. I don’t think a legislature has ever voluntarily surrendered that power and several legislatures of both parties have fought tooth and nail to overturn citizen’s initiatives and get the redistricting power back.
Most States don’t have the citizen’s initiative, thus no way for the public to force the change, as their politicians are certainly not interested in doing it.
They would be remiss not to look at voter registrations and use that information to lay out districts that accurately reflect political demographics. Probably the only way that can be done is if both major parties participate equally in the process. A constitutional amendment might be the only way to accomplish that, cuz there ain’t no way all fifty states will adopt laws to do so.
Few states have gone independent non partisan and it hasnt worked out as well for the gop…so they will scream conspiracy.
If you applied the same council to a state like California you would have the same result as the gop. The left would whine if things turned for the better for the GOP. .
Okay. Do you think any darlings of the right have engaged in any gerrymandering? Or is this just tha libz?
One of my personal favorites was when the GOP lost the NC governor’s race so the legislature just stripped the governorship of a bunch of powers before the Democrat take office. That’s impressively creative.
Glad to see that you all are in favour of my suggestion that there should be an independent body (similar to the Australian Electoral Commission) that draws up boundaries, conducts elections and counts the results.