More Downballot.

[Jolly]

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-legislatures/democrats-blame-gerrymandering-campaign-strategy-for-failure-to-flip-state-legislatures-idUSKBN27M1CG?il=0

[LuFins Dad]

“Blue” Virginia actually passed a constitutional amendment preventing the blue state government from redistricting and creates a bipartisan committee including citizens to handle it.

[jon-nyc]

That’s great.

More of that, please.

[Jolly]

@LuFins-Dad said in More Downballot.:

“Blue” Virginia actually passed a constitutional amendment preventing the blue state government from redistricting and creates a bipartisan committee including citizens to handle it.

Don't know if they can do that.

[taiwan_girl]

@LuFins-Dad said in More Downballot.:

“Blue” Virginia actually passed a constitutional amendment preventing the blue state government from redistricting and creates a bipartisan committee including citizens to handle it.

Best thing. Isn’t there one state (maybe Iowa) that does it by computer?

[bachophile]

@taiwan_girl what’s a computer?

[taiwan_girl]

@bachophile said in More Downballot.:

@taiwan_girl what’s a computer?

In Chinese, the translation is “electric brain”.

5555

[Axtremus]

@LuFins-Dad said in More Downballot.:

“Blue” Virginia actually passed a constitutional amendment preventing the blue state government from redistricting and creates a bipartisan committee including citizens to handle it.

I would prefer "non-partisan" to "bipartisan" for districting, but still this is a good improvement over just letting the ruling party run the redistricting process.

[Mik]

@LuFins-Dad said in More Downballot.:

“Blue” Virginia actually passed a constitutional amendment preventing the blue state government from redistricting and creates a bipartisan committee including citizens to handle it.

We had a similar amendment pass in Ohio a couple years ago.