Ending Gerrymandering Is Easy If Voters Are Up To The Challenge
Every 10 years, this nation conducts a census, a count of all people living in the 50 states. Immediately following the release of the results, the 435 members of the House of Representatives are reapportioned followed by the states redrawing both congressional and state legislative districts. The process used is one of the major reasons our government is broken.
Regardless whether the state legislature or an independent commission is used to draw the lines, the result is usually a zig zag that makes no sense, except to guarantee which of the two major political parties will control any given district in perpetuity. Equal representation based solely on population, which I believe was the intent of the founding fathers, has been replaced by representation based on political party affiliation and what the leaders of the two major political parties consider fair. If the process of governing is to be repaired, gerrymandering must end.
Redistricting must return to the original intent of Article 1, Section 2 of the U.S. Constitution and the changes made by the Fourteenth Amendment. It must return to equal representation of the population. Nowhere in the constitution has this been changed to equal representation based on political party. The actual process is not difficult. However, it will take willpower and courage on the part of the people
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