HOW should voting districts be formed?

Geographic by population. A district should not stretch and wind all around a state just to include demographics. There is no commonality and consistency when seeking representation of a jacked up district.

Geography and county/parish lines.

It's difficult because keeping boundaries that were arbitrarily created (states, cities, counties/parishes, towns/townships, etc) together, is hard when they can be bigger than a election district.


There will always be fudging to gain an advantage for your side if done by people (and the systems created by them, however computer/algorithm they may seem).

It's not an easy answer lo these many years of our country, and those of the old countries.

I think they possibly be made to keep them as close to 50/50 base on partisanship as possible, but that obviously has its own problems.

It's a weird thing really.

How did the framers think they should be?

Cut the state into districts to equalize the population in each and keep them geographically as small as possible.

Let the AI pick em.

six districts, 4.6 million people, 767,000 each

The top tier of parishes that touch arkansas have a combined popultation of 773,000.

Really wouldn't be difficult is just common sense applied. So you gotta leave the dems out of configuring the districts.

There is no good solution to creating congressional districts. The method varies from state to state with each state determining how they go about creating districts. There is never going to be consensus on how to pick districts because each side, Republicans and Democrats, are going to run the numbers, and whichever side determines it would not work out for them will oppose. Gerrymandering is as good as solution as there is unfortunately. From what I can tell Republicans would actually end up with more congressional seats most of the time if every state Jerry Mander to the maximum degree.

Senate seats are based on arbitrary lines, but those lines define states which each have their own set of interests, so house seats should be based on small subsets within them, consolidating local interests. It really shouldn’t be that hard. It’s based on census info, consolidate that info by parish/county/zip code. Maybe even let people vote on it. Who needs the save act when you can referendum the districts at the state level.

The gerrymandering may very well be why we feel this huge political divide - misalignment between the policies and interests of the voting bases throughout the country. Box out the apathetic voters who keep morons in office.

Start with these and expand out till equal population.

Shreveport
Monroe
Lake Charles/Lafayette
Baton Rouge
Slidell
New Orleans