California’s new Citizens Redistricting Commission is about to start work, now that the Census Bureau has released final 2010 population figures. The Commission has only 14 members. By law, five must be registered Democrats, five must be registered Republicans, and four must be registered “other”. Although all four of the “other” commissioners are now registered independents, two of those four have past associations with a minor party. See this interesting article from Poli-Tea.
The Commission will draw the new boundaries for California’s U.S. House districts, and its state legislative districts.
*personal experience* skewed toward long termed ENTRENCHED Dems and GOP. Physically moved or switched parties in past half decade? Bing, out of the process ………
Half the votes in half the districts = about 25 percent minority rule — regardless of the top 2 primary and the New Age gerrymander commission.
P.R. — NO MORON gerrymander commissions are needed.
Total Votes / Total Seats = EQUAL votes needed for each seat winner.
Any districts ONLY for ballot access. Cross district vote transfers by pre-election candidate rank order lists.
One of the “Democratic” members stated on their application that they in the past been a member of the Green, Peace&Freedom, and La Raza Unida parties.
Throughout the screening process, minor party (except AIP) members were overrepresented relative to their registration numbers. IIRC, an AIP member was selected for the interview stage (final 40 non-Demo Reps), but then withdrew.
Will the 2 robots deny their past — or be merely burned alive at the stakes — by the other Donkey/Elephant super-robot party hack gerrymander commission folks ???
Any brain scans done on the 14 robots ??? — assuming robots have any brains.