Or maybe you think cities, districts, etc. should be segregated by one’s political affiliation?

I am curious as to what your solution is, since I can’t think of anything that would be plausible and actually possible to implement.

but they did the best they could while still creating a realistic and operational system. By your logic, no one should ever have to pay taxes if they didn’t vote for their mayor, state representatives, etc., even if the majority of their locale did.

What you seem to be looking to do would require districts to be split and not contiguous. Cherry-picking the bigger cities out of their counties to create a third Dem seat: gerrymandering. The Founding Fathers knew there wasn’t ever going to be a perfect way to achieve exact representation…

If there are 7 million people in a state with one county that has close to 900k people, maybe you shave some part of that county off into another district but it should by-and-large be its own district and not split into parts of four different ones. Follow the math.

The point is for districts to be as fairly drawn and not gerrymandered— don’t divide up counties when possible (certainly not into four separate districts if the population total doesn’t require it, and don’t look at the voting history or anything other than the population totals.

The only way for House seats to truly match a state’s population is to eliminate districts entirely, and just have people vote for a party and then divide seats based on that percentage. But then one could argue lack of representation by not voting for specific elected officials.

That’s not the issue at hand though. We are looking to stop mid-cycle redistricting. I don’t think there is any reasonable way to redraw the maps that would get an increased number of Dem seats, and certainly not mid-cycle, ie. the issue at hand. It’s not about matching representation right now.

That’s a false comparison. No one had representation then. AND you’re missing the actual issue, which is that Trump, Braun, & co. are acting like the current maps are unfair (true) and the new maps will correct that (false). The new map will lead to zero seats held by Dems.

Braun and the Trump caucus claim the current maps aren’t fair — they’re correct! But their “fix” is to make them even less fair. Splitting Indianapolis into four different districts silences the largest city in the state and it silences our minorities.

Aaaaaaand if you’ve been waiting for a restock of your faves, stay tuned — the Vote USA map will be back soon, and more state flowers and vote from home are coming as they’re almost out! Aaaaaand the “Your Vote Is Your Voice” megaphone will be coming soon too!!

(Don’t rank Cuomo.

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That’s amazing, Annie!!!

It really was!!

Woohoo, happy race day!!!

It’s still not as instinctive to come here for me as it was with Twitter, but I’m trying haha.