[FraudFactor.com]

I believe Proposition 77 would have provided a substantial improvement over the current extreme gerrymandering in California.

A stronger, even more effective initiative should be enacted. It would use a compactness metric (such as BOUNDARY^2 / AREA) to pass or fail each proposed district boundary.

Another approach is to require that maximally compact districts are drawn by minimizing the sum of the lengths of the district boundaries.

Ideally, a computer program would draw the districts to maximize compactness and ignore political party registration data, election return data, and other voter demographic data used by gerrymandering programs.

Take a look at the FraudFactor.com gerrymandering page at:
http://www.fraudfactor.com/ffgerrymander.html

[Tunehead54]

The voters can stop this form of election fraud and the resulting political corruption by enacting redistricting reform laws through voter initiative in states where the right of voter initiative is available.

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Guess not. :-(

Just using geographical quadrants or at least geographic features for district boundries would be fine by me. We can win fair and square and I do NOT like seeing politicos protecting their "turf" by agreement with their opponents.

What third party stands a chance? Answer: None.

Any 3rd party supporters out there? I'll generally vote repub til there's a viable option but without redistricting reform you need not bother.