Forum Redistricting Commission

[Bacon King]

Oooh I want in!

[Bacon King]

Updated list!

JerryArkansas (R)
Dixie (R)
Del Tachi (R)

traininthedistance (D)??
Averroes Nix (D)
Morgieb (D)?
Gass (D)?
Bacon King (D)

Sol (I)
Miles (I)
X (G)
SLCValleyMan (G)
Electionsguy (L)

[Bacon King]

Also what preferences does everyone have for states? The biggest question to figure out is the number of districts we want to work with, I think. Which categories in the following tier list are acceptable to y'all? At what point, if any, will the exercise become too big or too small?

Big Four: CA/TX/FL/NY
Large States: IL/PA/OH/MI/GA/NC
Medium States: NJ/VA/WA/AZ/IN/TN/MA
Small States: MD/WI/MO/MN/AL/SC/CO
Tiny States: KY/LA/CT/OK/OR
Simple States: the rest (four districts or less)

[Bacon King]

Approve: Indiana, Virginia, Wisconsin
Disapprove: Kentucky

[Bacon King]

Sorry to spam the thread, but I'd like to request that you guys add Washington State to your lists.  It's map is atrocious; it basically strings (gerrymanders) all the towns North of Seattle to make the second district safe for Democrats, and combines the Seattle suburbs with heavily Republican counties in the East (which is bad taste in the first place) to make it non-competitive:




Terrible, terrible map. 

IIRC there are also issues about small/seasonal mountain roadways being the only routes connecting districts over the crest of the Cascade Range (and it looks like two districts cross over the range when one would have been sufficient)

[Bacon King]

As I am not a member of the commission I will be playing the role of an interest group's representative who will be relentlessly hounding the commissioners (the interest group in question will depend on the state)

[Bacon King]

Since it appears to be close to a consensus, I'll change my earlier vote to just Virginia