Porportional Gerrymandering

I completely agree with Kayla and Julia that proportional gerrymandering is the best route to take. The House was made to be the piece of government closest to the people. In order for the House to represent people’s views, their views should be proportionally represented. The shortest split-line method can sometimes cause the representation to be off. If there is way to ensure that the proportional representation could be accurate every time then why wouldn’t we use it? If someone is being paid to purposely gerrymander then they wouldn’t risk their salary to toy with the process. They could always have more jobs in place after the person finishes looking over the job and making sure it fulfills

all the requirements it was asked to fill. This process can also make court cases regarding gerrymandering disappear because since it’s a purposeful act no one can argue with it. Even if there are weirdly shaped states, everyone would be informed of it in the first place and know the reason why, If someone is politically interested enough to look up the shape of their House district then by that time I’m sure they would be informed of the new system out in place. In the article it said that gerrymandering has grown to becoming easier with computer systems and such. Those systems could also potentially help this process too. Also, this solution should make people the most happy. People are now guaranteed that their state, and their wants and needs are accurately represented. Now if CT wants one republican district that encompasses all of the republicans in the state because their population is little then they would finally get a voice unlike now where if you are a republican living in CT you literally have no voice whatsoever because all of our House reps are democratic unlike with the split-line where they could still split up the districts equally and have republicans split up everywhere. This would give them no voice still. Proportional gerrymandering ensures representation no matter where you may reside in the state.