An excellent description of a badly needed reform. The last sentence is spot-on: "It just requires thinking bigger about the problem and opening our selves to new ideas."
"Yet redistricting has become such bloodsport because in a winner-takes-all, single-member system, the district lines determine winners and losers, and incentivizes politicians to talk to their base and avoid a primary challenge, the only election they can really lose."
Single choice plurality voting and gerrymandering result in disproportionate representation. Fair elections result from multi-member districts with seats filled via proportional ranked choice voting.
Great post David!!!! A positive, non-partisan aspiration. We need this more than ever!!!
An excellent description of a badly needed reform. The last sentence is spot-on: "It just requires thinking bigger about the problem and opening our selves to new ideas."
Is that asking too much?
"Yet redistricting has become such bloodsport because in a winner-takes-all, single-member system, the district lines determine winners and losers, and incentivizes politicians to talk to their base and avoid a primary challenge, the only election they can really lose."
Single choice plurality voting and gerrymandering result in disproportionate representation. Fair elections result from multi-member districts with seats filled via proportional ranked choice voting.