Today's Talking Point

[lollardfish]

Gerrymandering is an affront to the core principles of representative democracy. Citizens of all parties must seek to end this abomination in all 50 states.

Comments

[mia-mcdavid.livejournal.com]

Not disagreeing at all, but do you know if there's any good algorithm or principle for drawing district boundaries appropriately? I mean, if there's several reasonable ways to do it, and one way created a Latino district, for instance, which would put a Latino representative into office, is this a good thing or bad thing to do?

[groomporter.livejournal.com]

That's the problem, if it gives the Latino an unfair advantage it may be bad, but then again, if Latinos are under-represented in that state is that then redressing a wrong?

Public radio had a recent discussion of the difficulties of redistricting that was kind of interesting, but I couldn't find the what show it was on their website.