If Dems take back the House redistricting reform better be one of the first bills they pass. Independent commissions for every state!
I hope so, but Democrats have been rather incompetent on taking every option they have at fighting this. Michigan allows ballot initiatives yet Democrats have not yet filed redistricting reform there. Florida is a critical state that Republicans cannot afford to lose, yet Democrats have not backed/pushed initiatives to get same-day/auto registration enacted, nor any to give felons voting rights back (23% of adult African Americans in FL cannot vote, or basically 520,000+).
No redistricting reform initiatives in Nevada, either. No Congressional redistricting reform initiative in Ohio, either.
Makes me wonder exactly what the #*@( they are thinking.
Redistricting referendum have flopped at the polls here repeatedly in the last decade. The GOP controlled government passed some watered down redistricting reforms in the hope of dampening the call for major reform, and it seems to have worked for now.
