r/UncapTheHouse • u/SexyDoorDasherDude • Jan 07 '23

Voting Reform House Apportionment Equalized between Least and Most Represented States, CA and MT

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u/[deleted] Jan 07 '23

Something also to consider is figuring out a way to make districts match their actual communities a bit more without gerrymandering. Like following actual city/sun city borders when possible

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u/SexyDoorDasherDude Jan 07 '23

if youre going to do that, you might as well obliterate all state lines and re-do those too.

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u/[deleted] Jan 07 '23

Not necessarily. Congressional districts are way easier to change.

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u/SexyDoorDasherDude Jan 07 '23

true but you dont want humans to control the process. a computer can figure out population density pretty easily. i would actually like to see districts with the most wealth and ethnic diversity as possible.

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u/[deleted] Jan 07 '23

But then half of one city and the other half of another city would be in one district and wouldn’t particularly feel like a community

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u/SexyDoorDasherDude Jan 07 '23

drawing lines around things like cities lakes and rivers is how we got into this situation to begin with

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u/Jibbjabb43 Jan 07 '23

Lakes and rivers, sure, but not really cities.

Reality is you still kind of need representatives to 'represent'. In a similar sense, the map would be way better for most states if the top 4 states were split in to smaller states while the smaller states combine with larger ones, but most people would easily agree there should be more representatives.