[rahbert]

I have my doubts about leaving such a hot issue as
legislative boundaries to unelected committees.

I guess thats better than having the Dems do it, but
even they must face the voters.

Better to be like Texas and drive the Dems to hide out
in some motel in Ardmore OK...

[pogo101]

I understand your suspicions about the new (proposed) approach, but it's gotten good results in Iowa and Oregon. And, bear in mind that whatever plan gets drawn up, can be challenged (and invariably is, in states with similar systems) in the state supreme court.

I guess thats better than having the Dems do it, but even they must face the voters.

What you're forgetting is this: the particular voters whom the gerrymandering Democrats "have to face" are the ones they hand-pick. They draw districts so as to concentrate the state's 45% GOP voters into 35% of the districts, making their (the Democrats') own districts very safe indeed. So the "check" that voters otherwise could apply to abuses of the line-drawing power is itself undermined severely BY those very abuses.