Republicans in Wisconsin just voted to fire the state election administrator, and continue to threaten to impeach a newly elected supreme court justice
Given the issues with gerrymandering throughout the States, I'm surprised I don't see more discussion of other alternative means of assigning seats based on votes. We could have two representatives per district, or proportional representation or I'm sure many other options that would make gerrymandering moot or at least a lot harder.
Do you know of anyone actively working on introducing such alternatives anywhere in the US?
Given the issues with gerrymandering throughout the States, I'm surprised I don't see more discussion of other alternative means of assigning seats based on votes. We could have two representatives per district, or proportional representation or I'm sure many other options that would make gerrymandering moot or at least a lot harder.
Do you know of anyone actively working on introducing such alternatives anywhere in the US?
These are good primers. The problem, of course, is that the party in power never wants to change anything
https://www.democracydocket.com/analysis/three-alternatives-to-traditional-redistricting/
https://www.newamerica.org/political-reform/reports/what-we-know-about-redistricting-and-redistricting-reform/introduction
FixUS, a project of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, recently shared their research on a number of topics, including redistricting and multimember districts, that may be of interest: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lfhQLd2y6yjJcfa_NdyX0TgaTJoH5rX6/edit.