Opinion by Paul Waldman and Greg Sargent: Bad news for Democrats who thought redistricting would be okay
in January that if Democrats win the national popular vote this fall by one point, they’d stand a good chance of retaining the majority.But Wasserman now says that because of this development in New York and other ones in Ohio and Florida, his assessment has changed.
. There, a Republican-dominated commission violated a voter-approved initiative meant to eliminate partisan gerrymandering. Four times, the commission produced biased maps. Four times the state Supreme Court told them to fix the maps.courts, where they got a favorable ruling from Republican judges. The result: One of their gerrymandered maps will probably be used. Republicans violated the will of the voters and ignore the state court, and it’s working.to strike down the Democrats’ gerrymander.
Of course, the entire system created by all this gerrymandering is a mess. Only a tiny sliver of House districts are competitive at all; in many places, rather than voters choosing their representatives, the representatives have chosen their voters.It’s a disaster for democracy. And the clearest solution is for every state to use nonpartisan commissions.
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