On June 13, the New Hampshire legislature passed HB 706. It sets up an independent redistricting commission, for drawing boundaries for U.S. House and state legislative districts. Thanks to Darryl Perry for this news.
On June 13, the New Hampshire legislature passed HB 706. It sets up an independent redistricting commission, for drawing boundaries for U.S. House and state legislative districts. Thanks to Darryl Perry for this news.
I don’t know why people think this is such a panacea. You still end up with single member districts elected by plurality vote. IMO, a better solution to the gerrymandering problem is to create large, multi member districts based on existing, relevant boundaries. A good example of this would electing all the Representatives in Congress at large by state. Ranked choice, cumulative, or approval voting could be used to increase the opportunities for minorities.
AUTOMATIC minority rule gerrymanders —
whoever/whatever is making SMDs.
1/2 x 1/2 = 1/4 = oligarchy.
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PR in ALL regimes.
This information is a couple months old. Here is the local article: https://www.concordmonitor.com/Senate-passes-independent-redistricting-commission-bill-24463047
Jeff, that article you refer to was another bill, SB 8, which didn’t pass the whole legislature, just the Senate.
The HACKS in the super-SMALL pop States love the ONE USA Rep minimum
— OUR State HACK in the minority rule gerrymander USA H Reps.
@Walter
NH has a lot of multi-member districts
How many of those NH MMD have ALL D or R hacks ???
@Darryl: Would the redistricting commission continue with multi member districts? On what basis would they decide whether a district is multi member? And what about Congressional districts? I believe NH only has 2. Why NOT elected them at large?