On 12/3/12 8:00 AM, Jonathan Denn wrote:
Fair Redistricting or Ending Gerrymandering is always a great "grievance" among electoral reformers. But the "solution" is much more elusive. Do you folks ever venture into that area?
can't say that i've done anything about it, but i have studied a little bit about the math that defines Apportionment where the 435 Representatives in the House are apportioned among the 50 U.S. states. the current method is this Huntington-Hill method and i am still somewhat dubious of it.
about redistricting, how the lines get drawn, i wish that there would be an algorithm that would do it without the input from the state legislatures, because we *know* they do that with political self-interest in mind. here is a consequence: in the November 2012 election, not only did the Democrats win the presidency, keep control of the Senate and gain seats both in the Senate and in the House, it turns out that even though the House retained GOP control that *more* voters in the U.S. that voted in the House races voted for Democrat candidates than voted for GOP candidates. i say this everytime a GOP apologist claims that they have a mandate (to obstruct Obama) in the House. how is it that more voters voted Democrat yet there are more GOP representatives elected? i presume because of gerrymandering. it must be the case that in most of the races where the GOP candidate wins, that they won with a smaller margin than in the races where the Dem candidate won.
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