It would also make us a better democracy by doing this. A true democracy would have free and fair elections. By making mainly competitive districts, it would make the elections more fair. The incumbents in Congress want gerrymandering to make safe districts, but the people want competitive districts. By paying a person to make competitive districts, it will get that process out of politics, plus not only that, but according to CGP Grey, it is the best way to avoid disproportionate representation. With competitive elections, the results would reflect the thoughts of the people more closely. The only problem is that the person that makes the maps could end up being a little bit biased, but by paying them to make competitive districts, that would get rid of that problem. Also, with the split line method, the results may not represent the results of the people accurately, which is bad in a democracy where the thoughts of the people should be represented accurately. Also, it would get rid of unfair influence that political parties may have by using normal gerrymandering because it would not have any party influence over district borders. It would be obvious that the districts would be more fair based on Iowa's districts too as shown by the political cartoon below. Overall, this solution of proportional gerrymandering would solve most of the problems of normal gerrymandering by creating a more free and fair system by making districts that represent the population accordingly or by making the elections more competitive.
"It would be obvious that the districts would be more fair based on Iowa's districts too as shown by the political cartoon below." Does Iowa use this system? Check it out:
ReplyDeletehttp://endgerrymanderingnow.org/plan/iowa-model/
...looks kind of like a nonpartisan committee
It does look like a nonpartisan committee. The point that I was trying to make is that there would not be very weirdly shaped districts if proportional gerrymandering was used. I was trying to use the shapes of the districts to show how obvious it could be that the districts aren't gerrymandered. That map was made by a nonpartisan committee, but proportional gerrymandering can result in very similar districts, without the risk of having a nonpartisan committee being not as nonpartisan as everyone thinks.
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