To: The United States House of Representatives
Establish equality in Congressional Redistricting
Gerrymandering of congressional districts has become a process that allows either party to form districts that create pools of voters that do not represent the cultural, political, and ethnic mixture that accurately represents our nation of today.
Some Gerrymandered districts are so geographically dispersed that they are difficult for the representative to represent efficiently and effectively.
Therefore, a law should be passed that requires that redistricting take only population into account in the formation of districts.
Every effort should be made to form the districts along existing governmental, or natural boundary's.
Iowa's redistricting process may be a good model to build on.
Some Gerrymandered districts are so geographically dispersed that they are difficult for the representative to represent efficiently and effectively.
Therefore, a law should be passed that requires that redistricting take only population into account in the formation of districts.
Every effort should be made to form the districts along existing governmental, or natural boundary's.
Iowa's redistricting process may be a good model to build on.
Why is this important?
I am tired of the petty efforts to bias our representative elections in any direction. Protecting the fairness of our representative government is fundamental to American democracy. With increased data availability and computer power politicians have been able to more accurately define districts that have an engineered bias. It is time for America to use that same data availability and computer power to bring equality back into the redistricting process and out of the hands of our politicians.