[doodad]

I have always thought that the states should be districted by computer calculating an even number of people per district area. More districts in urban areas, fewer and larger ones in rural areas. But, even and without regard to neighborhoods and race.

But, that reduces power so it will never happen.

[goldstategop]

In most states, the politicians do the drawing. Prop. 11 is not a perfect solution to the evils of gerrymandering but insistence on the perfect is the enemy of the good. This reform will allow the lopsided table that now favors the Democrats to become in theory at least, an even playing field. No one can be sure what will happen since this a new model of doing that decennial redrawing of representative districts. But it can't be much worse that what California has had and could even turn out to be an improvement. The status quo is killing the Republican Party.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[KarlInOhio]

How about this one: All congressional districts run the entire width of California. Their north/south distance is chosen to equalize the population in each. I wonder how that would work out and who would be elected.

One state (maybe Iowa) has a requirement that all districts should have a minimal border length, so the districts are pretty much square instead of long districts following highways to connect two cities together like one state had.

[JSDude1]

I’ve always favored a system such as this: (state) House of Reps determined by proportions-population, (state) Senate= 1 Senator per County. Simply, non gerrymandered (except some vulnerable on the House of Representatives side), and makes sense.

[MainFrame65]

Of course the primary measure is population, but the gerrymander limit ought to be the ratio of boundary length to area - perhaps with a special rule for an urban district completely enclosed by a rural area.