Yesterday the Fair Representation Act was re-introduced in Congress! This reform will stop gerrymandering and make the House of Representatives more competitive and more responsive to voters.
@alan I would rather we go back to something closer the representation proportions of 1920 of about 200,000 per representative and that would give my valley 4 not 1. Instead of this which would roll us into a much more conservative area and give us one rep.
Though the current number in the house is capped by law.
@InkySchwartz What valley are you in? This proposal would roll you up with some adjacent areas and give you more than one rep.
Simply increasing the number of reps but maintaining single-member districts is underwhelming. Just look at the smaller districts in state legislatures and you can see that they're just as easily gerrymandered, just as often stuck with unresponsive incumbents who can't be defeated, and still completely locks out third parties. A bigger house solves basically nothing.
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