Yes, to draw such a didtrict is cheating. And yes, California and arizona can be dead wrong too.
o you know why those states got those boards? Because they were doing this kind of crap, and people got tired of it.
It is not “cheating.” You keep using that word, it doesn’t mean what you think it means.
As for those boards, what people precisely were tired of the legislature doing their rightful duty ? Elites rolling the rubes into believing such a process can be done “independently.” It can’t. There will always be a partisan lean to it. Taking it away from a GOP legislature means getting screwed every time. Some Republicans were pushing the nonsense in California thinking they’d get a “fair shake.” Instead, what was a minority became a super-minority of seats for the GOP.