New Bills in Congress to Ban Mid-Decade Redistricting of U.S. House Seats and to Require Each State to Have a Non-Partisan Redistricting Commission

New bills in Congress have been introduced to reform redistricting for U.S. House. They are S2885, and HR 5449. The Senate bill has three co-sponsors, and the House bill has 52 co-sponsors. All the co-sponsors are Democrats, except that independent U.S. Senator Angus King is a co-sponsor.

Here is the text of the bill. The House bill was introduced September 18 by Zoe Lofgren of California, and the Senate bill was introduced September 19 by Alex Padilla, also of California.


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New Bills in Congress to Ban Mid-Decade Redistricting of U.S. House Seats and to Require Each State to Have a Non-Partisan Redistricting Commission — 14 Comments

  1. IF TOP DONKEYS HAVE ANY BRAINS —

    CONVENE A CONVENTION TO HAVE DEMOCRACY REFORMS–

    UNIFORM *POSITIVE* DEFINITION OF ELECTOR-VOTER
    PR IN ALL LEGIS BODIES IN USA
    NONPARTISAN EXECS/JUDICS VIA APPV
    TOTAL SOP

    IN USA REGIME ALSO ELECT –
    USA SOS, AG, DAS, MARSHALS — ALL TO WATCH OTHER EXECS
    AND ALL USA JUDGES

    OLDE 1777 AC IGNORED IN 1787-1789 DUE TO ITS FATAL DEFECTS.

    SAME N-O-W FOR 1787 USA CONST AND ITS FATAL DEFECTS

  2. Actually, the process needs to be opened up. Congressional elections are too non-competitive. The States should be able to redistrict whenever they want. The law requiring single member districts should be repealed. The size of the House should be expanded by adopting the Wyoming Rule. Different states should try different voting methods.

  3. And populous states should be split up into smaller states so that legislatures and redistricting commissions in big states have fewer seats to play with.

  4. (1) Increase size of House (cube root rule = 692).

    (2) Apportionment varies by Congress (e.g. a state entitled to 1.2 representatives will have one representatives in one Congress over a decade, and two in the other four Congresses.

    (3) Federal government draws districts (just like Canada and Australia). Districts are multi-member, based on CVAP, and like the state as a whole can have a variable representation from Congress to Congress.

    (4) Representatives chosen by STV (NZ method).

  5. @DFR,

    How would you handle redistricting? For example, if the affinity groups were political parties, in 2020, Oklahoma would have:

    35.675 D districts
    48.737 R districts
    0.540 L districts
    16.049 I districts

    In 2025

    26.907 D districts
    53.136 R districts
    0.975 L districts
    19.982 I districts

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