I have a method that would make each congressional and state legislative district more equal than the current method and more importantly, as compact as possible. We should put it in the hands of US Census Bureau (CB) every four years.

In 2004, the Supreme Court came within a single vote of ruling against Gerrymandered districts, thus allowing political influence to draw the redistricting lines and the unconstitutional rigging of the citizens vote.

Gerrymandered districts are in violation of the constitutional compactness of district’s line. Our politicians forget about compactness and choose our community’s district lines with their re-election interests in mind. In order to get re-elected, they use the voters current address to define the border lines based on a voters leaning towards one political party or another. Sometimes, they also used a common ethnic or religious background.

My solution is a method that would make each congressional and state legislative district more equal than the current method and more importantly, as compact as possible.

The Gerrymandering solution requires a test to see how much more compact a district line may be defined using citizens current Global Positioning System (GPS) location instead of their street addresses. The GPS points are a precise ruler system using addresses with a number for Latitude (vertical) and Longitude (horizontal) locations.

Note changing to GPS points may not change your state Senators/Representatives, but it will bring your neighbors interest closer together when the CB provides the GPS district lines. This change will also save the current tax payer cost of the work of numerous committees all over the county. Eliminating the Electoral college would also permit local communities to decide who they want to represent them as president.

This solution would require the CB to see how much more compact a district may be defined using the GPS points instead of street addresses. I have made examples of the Redistricting Game (RG). These two maps show how the US Census Bureau could replace a 4 district community with the required new 5th district with a nearly equal populations of about 6,450.

My 4 districts Redistricting Game picture on the RG websitehttp://www.redistrictinggame.org/ shows an uneven population and the district lines have been Gerrymandered.

My 5 district map can be made with nearly even population and the district lines are more strait. However it shows the more identical 645,000 population. And, if the Redistricting Game used a GPS increment smaller than 3% for district lines, the populations would be more exact.

So changing to GPS points may not change your state Representatives, but it will bring your neighbors interest closer when the US Census Bureau provides the GPS district lines. This change will also save the current cost of the work of numerous committees all over the county.

It still uses the ten year Census, but the lines are drawn by the California Citizens Redistricting Commission (five Democrats, five Republicans, four independents), NOT legislators. It was initially met wet scorn from all corners, but it appears to be working, and by most measures it was Schwarzenegger's crowning achievement.

https://ballotpedia.org/California_Citizens_Redistricting_Commission


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