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Kaisch: Fix GOP or Else

jimbo said:
Crap, another one of my original ideas gone bad. Next you're going to tell me that someone already figured out that if you round off the corners of a square the wheels roll better.
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why I would never

The answers are there for just about anything. If we just don't divide over ****ing football games and foreign idiocy.
 
poweRob said:
True. Although Im a huge opponent of thinking money is speech therefore billionaires sponsor their own candidates against other billionaires' candidates. I think publicly funded elections could fix all that mess. It's been done before and it works.
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Even if it could pass 1A muster, how does that reduce any of the incumbent only perks that are now publicly funded?
 
jimbo said:
Trouble is, voting is not about government deciding the outcome of an election before the vote, which is what gerrymandering is all about.

My district was broken up for the last election because we were too white. Now my representative is someone in inner city Richmond. Tell me how that represents me.
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I agree with the problem im just not sure about the best solution

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ttwtt78640 said:
Even if it could pass 1A muster, how does that reduce any of the incumbent perks that are now publicly funded?
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It doesn't demand that you run on public funds. Just that you can't raise over x amount for campaigning and if your opponent opts for publicly funded campaign, they get monies to level the playing field with a cap on how much both can raise. Doesn't stop what incumbents do while in office. I don't think there is an answer for that because you'd have to decipher what is work and what is campaigning. You can't ask them to stop working.
 
poweRob said:
Ten minute TED talk on it by him.

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Appreciate you sharing that. Im not i agree with his algorithm i need more info about its parameters

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ttwtt78640 said:
While the court is at it, maybe they should address similar nonsense ordered by the courts to create majority minority districts to do the same thing - to ensure that blacks/Hispanics can elect candidates that look (sound?) just like them who just happen to be demorats.
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Someone was telling me that that is what is the case in Georgia. They redistricted many many years ago so that african americans in the atlanta area would actually have a chance at representation and now it's pigeonholded the dems to where that is a strong blue district surrounded by hard core red districts so dems can't grow. So something put into place by dems is now hurting them and the GOP has embraced it and is trying to solidify it even more.
 
poweRob said:
Someone was telling me that that is what is the case in Georgia. They redistricted many many years ago so that african americans in the atlanta area would actually have a chance at representation and now it's pigeonholded the dems to where that is a strong blue district surrounded by hard core red districts so dems can't grow. So something put into place by dems is now hurting them and the GOP has embraced it and is trying to solidify it even more.
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What is a (the?) proper way to subdivide a large area to create multiple voting districts is likely never going to be solved to everyone's satisfaction. A typical layout of a large population area is a dense urban core surrounded by less densely populated, but larger in area, suburban and rural fringes. Should that area's districting map look more like a bow and arrow target or more like a pizza pie?
 
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