Gerrymandering: Why it's getting worse

It's not quite one-person, one-vote, when politicians can redraw maps of the voting districts they represent, to ensure safe seats for their party. Correspondent David Pogue looks at how partisan gerrymandering can undermine true democracy.
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[tejanoj]

Without gerrymandering, congress people would actually have to work for their constituents. With gerrymandering, they actually don't. Get rid of it.

[hoytbangs]

"A people that elect corrupt politicians, impostors, thieves and traitors are not victims, but accomplices." - George Orwell

[tobechukwuolumba]

Gerrymandering is not only unjust, but is also a threat to politics.

[ethanvilla]

Supreme Court: Nothing we can do about gerrymandering
Also Supreme court: We can take away a woman's right to her own body though

[jojopuppyfish]

Schwarzenegger best accomplishment as governor of CA was creating an independent process that prevents Gerrymandering

[bearswithglasses]

One person, one vote has *never* been reality. The electoral college makes sure of that. We need to completely redesign our electoral system.

[keithjohnson]

Recently our council districts changed and there were public hearings via zoom and it was like a game show. And in the end, council members had the final say on how their districts were remapped. Now after some back room dealings were secretly recorded and released, one member resigned and the other two are hanging on collecting paychecks but not going to council meetings. Sort of a paid vacation as they'll surely be ousted in the future.

[travisdejong]

We as a society need to start thinking outside the box. At the state level you could implement proportional voting systems like Germany's states do. With such a system it wouldn't matter how districts are drawn because the number of elected officials would be proportional to the popular vote.

[hummersd]

“Eventually people die…” Ugh, hurry up already for some of them. They really need to impose term limits. By getting in the younger ones by the previous Admin, they’ll be there for what it feels like will be FOREVER, and by being that far Conservative, we’ll see more rulings fall taking away rights rather than protecting them. Enough is enough.

[NatureBoychannel]

Abolish congressional districts and made it statewide. If a state has 2 and other has 4 congressional districts. In the election have 4 and 8 candidates. The 2 and 4 that get the most votes statewide are elected as representatives of the state.

[dcDOC]

If only we could make gerrymandering illegal and impose term limits for ALL public office, our country would have better representation and less division.

[hakukuze]

Watch the documentary “Slay the Dragon” on what three states did about it. We can fight this but it’s tough and big dark money is gonna fight back. Thank you for sharing this.

[PremierCCGuyMMXVI]

Gerrymandering makes us more polarized and us being polarized makes gerrymandering easier

[joeyager]

One help would be more Congressional Representatives. The current 435 was set from the 1910 census when there was only 46 states and the population was about 106M. Today there are 50 states, the population is 330M and yet we still have only 435 Reps. This lets Gerrymandering legislatures divide cities and put parts of them in large rural districts that dilutes the urban voters, thus assuring that rural representatives dominate state legislatures and Congress. Because of this Representatives don't respond and help cities because they lose in those precincts so they really don't care.

[Jude]

The oldest people currently on the court are Republicans. If we can keep Democrats in charge of Congress for the next cycle or two, we have a chance of it not taking that long. But then we are supporting one party rule, which is what we don’t want. We would be better off selecting better candidate on both sides.

[derrickzoolander]

This needs to be shown in every high school in the US

[sammyp]

Ron Desantis redrew floridas maps himself

[DanielBlaney]

Michigans Independent redistricting system they used this cycle should be the template for a countrywide anti gerrymandering system.

[cidsapient]

Because districting is run by the politicians and not the voters

[markkalfahs]

...we need statesmen and stateswomen in political offices, NOT politicians...three terms for a U.S. Representative and two for a U.S. Senator...people who have been in the D.C. swamp too long, as has our President been there since '73, lose all perspective of what the hoi polloi go through...look up the Dingell name from Michigan and see how disgustingly long that family has been around D.C. ...