HR 1 becoming law?

[UncleSam]

I’m not going to take any ‘anti-gerrymandering’ effort from Democrats seriously until they propose having computers draw the lines. The truth is Dems just want to gerrymander themselves but without even having to win state legislatures in the first place, which is objectively worse for Democracy than at least having to win something before rigging the system in your favor (though obviously both are awful and need to be done away with).

Banning voter ID laws pretty much falls under the same boat, though IMO Rs are equally bad on this issue. What we need is a centralized SSN list that just registers who voted and where every election, with one centralized voter registration list that gets updated automatically when people turn 18.

So ya basically this law is just pure political hackery outside of the campaign finance reform stuff. Hopefully banning super PACS gains traction on its’ own.

[UncleSam]

I’m not going to take any ‘anti-gerrymandering’ effort from Democrats seriously until they propose having computers draw the lines. The truth is Dems just want to gerrymander themselves but without even having to win state legislatures in the first place, which is objectively worse for Democracy than at least having to win something before rigging the system in your favor (though obviously both are awful and need to be done away with).

Who decides what algorithm the computer uses?

Obviously there would be some basic federal guidelines in terms of county splitting / compactness (as well as VRA), but otherwise just let 538 run everything imo