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I agree! But what are we supposed to do when we are in the midst of a fascist takeover. Were you talking about this when you were in office? Has ANY Republican in recent decades talked about getting rid of gerrymandering and the electoral college???

Do, don’t talk about.

Yes. To promote fair play while retaining state control over elections, as the Constitution provides for, we can establish an inter-state compact for divising a common approach to drawing legislative and congressional districts. It would constitute a "ceasefire" in the gerrymander wars.

We tried in Michigan through direct vote, they created a commission to redraw the map. It flipped the state legislature blue for the first time in 40 years But I still doubt how successful it is 🤔

I am in favor of a national algorithm, created with bipartisan agreement, that would be applied dispassionately by computers, that would reassign Congressional districts every time that the 10-year census numbers are finalized. District assignment for state legislatures remains under state control.

The People must have their say at the ballot box until a law is passed that bans gerrymandering.

“Tit for tat” is appropriate for all circumstances until it escalates to Mutually Assured Destruction. I want to see a wave of anti-corruption and anti-SA/CSA lawmakers sweep elections and deliver a functioning government.

---free and fair elections---

Jordan. Oops, allowed an autocorrect.

Thanks - saved me the trouble of posting this bastardization of a Congressional district. Gym Jordan and his dress shoes . .

Same.

Theres been plenty of bills put up by Dems that fail to get sufficient GOP support to pass. GOP is basically a minority party that is able to hold power in part due to gerrymandering.

The ONLY way this will work is if we redistrict EVERY state, until EVERY district on the map looks close to a rectangle. (I’m looking at YOU, Ohio.) I can see districts following rivers, or county lines, but right now, they look like a kid finger-painted them while on 10 cups of coffee.

All one has to do is watch how the Republicans cheat at every and any opportunity to suppress the vote.The crooked bastards are relentless.That's what they do. Now with this crook in the WH,and a gutless Republican goose stepping Congress,it is IMPERATIVE THAT DEMOCRATS need to fight fire with fire.

Gerrymandering wouldn’t matter if people weren’t so party entrenched. A good start would be outlawing single party ballot options and present only candidate names, in random order, without party affiliation on ballots?

If we can get both parties to agree. Unfortunately your party's leader decided to start this fight through coercion whereas the Democratic led states are at least putting it up for a vote.

We🇺🇸 are so winning.....👇

Absolutely spot on with both statements!

Game theory

Exactly

Sure, AFTER we kick all these republiCONS to the curb, and take OUR country back.

All gerrymandering is illegal, but rules, decorum, and class don't matter any more.

We should also expand the House, expand the court, and neuter the Senate

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Look at you purposely misleading people. YOU were very quiet when republicans were doing it, why all noise now Adam?

The whole thing is broken beyond repair - the undemocratic electoral college and the way we allocate senate representation are much bigger problems. Unfortunately neither will be changed.

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Amen and thank you.

Are you on drugs? Texas ring a bell or any other attempt they made? Here's a link because it appears you have done ZERO research into gerimandering. Now, go on boo boo and get to reading 🙄

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Games appear to be the only thing they know how to play, and not very well.

Those votes were cast out after he left. This shit started with Texas

You're talking about a person that voted for traitor trump...the dishonorable POS liar and treasonous rapist...TWICE! I'm glad that Adam turned his head toward democracy and honor at some point, but so did MTG...right? Their judgement is clearly flawed, so while I'm glad now, I still don't trust em

Which is because manipulating zoning districts is the only way republicans can eke out the votes they need to win. They are that vastly unpopular AND they know it. That party is dead in the water. Deservedly so.

Including Adam Kinzinger!

And the very political Supreme Court thought it was helping the right wing when it allowed just over one third of Wisconsin voters control two thirds of the seats. Funny thing happens on the way back to democracy.

We have something similar in Canada

However until there is a ban on gerrymandering the Dems need to fight fire with fire - especially when the republicans are so stupid they end of Dummy Mandering....

The American system is corrupt and broken.

Exactly no parties should gerrymander period !

No. We should gerrymander Republicans out of existence

It's worth a try.

But how would that work? How can you draw congressional lines with no thought to representation? Not disagreeing just unclear on how to accomplish it.

Yep. The RepugliKKKans started this gerrymandering war. Now they must own it! Hopefully sanity will return and we can end gerrymandering. But for now we must use every tool in the toolbox to save our democracy!!

How about not having political parties run elections at all? How about one independent electoral commission for the entire country like the Australian Electoral Commission? But, sadly, I guess that will never happen.

I agree.

The root of the problem is First-Past-The-Post election system. Even ranked choice is better. Any election system that adds proportional element solves Gerrymandering.

While I believe there should be no Gerrymandering, but when one if fighting against one who doesnt follow any rules, we should call his bluff and fight fire with fire. Otherwise everyone should be on the same playing field.

I’ve said that for years. It is always deck stacking in my view; in other words, cheating. 👏🏻🇺🇸😎

Thank you.

Boycott oil Or encourage oil wars Disarm all military industrial complexes

We did ban it. But Chief Justice Roberts says that banning it is unconstitutional.

I truly absolutely completely agree a trillion times over and over and over and.....

Nope. Not until this current regime is out and behind bars. You can take the Republican out of office, but you can't take the Republican out of you

An app on an iPhone could create equally and impartially drawn districts in 30 seconds. It’s not rocket science. Many districts would go from red or blue to purple - maybe most of them. This would remove a great deal of the disfunction caused by Republicans.

However, Hillary would have won in 2016 so there’s that!

YES! Thank you! I came here to make the same comment.

Ah, Mr. Florida will be under water by 2020? That useless idiot?

Excellent post !!! 👍🏾 👏🏾👏🏼👏🏽👏🏿👏🏻💯

Some don't want all people to be able to vote... but some sure want their livestock well represented in Congress. And some, I assume, are fine sheep.

& that's reality!

Funny how the blue areas represent the highest GDP/tax revenue producers as well.

So now the gop wants to stop gerrymandering once the democrats start? 🙄 Sorry Adam, your party started this shit but we are finishing it! Time to give the gop a taste of their own medicine and gerrymander them out for generations!

Selfishness can be a byproduct of systemic inequality. What if we address the economic and social structures that breed self-interest, rather than just teaching critical thinking?

Indeed! Probably quite a few roots to this problem, actually.

Ending the archaic electoral college would automatically make gerrymandering pointless. 😁

Oh so now it's a problem, Adam! This is an ancient playbook of the republican party that backfired stupendously against them. Too many, even so called liberals, looked the other way as voter suppression ran rampant in minority communities across America, every election.

The solution to bad maps is no maps. Congress needs to allow multi-member districts if a system other than winner take all is used. Ranked choice is one such system but there are others. www.fairvote.org.

Term limits on the Supreme Court, overturn Citizens United, DC needs a senator and house representative, electoral college, ban gambling apps that are not sports...

We NEED to overturn Citizens United. It's literally what our founding fathers predicted and warned about, yet the "originalist" Supreme Court Justices just rubber stamped.

Gerrymandering has ruined Ohio and led to the election of that Uber asshole Jim Jordan. Gerrymandering sucks!

Texas, under trump's direction, started it last year. Of Dems were going to fight back. Passing a law banning off year gerrymandering is the only way.

Totally agree. Gerrymandering is bad. It’s much worse if only one party is allowed to do it.

America will never ban anything that may give advantage to the oppressor.

In Canada, representatives are elected to entire set regions for provincial and federal and municipalities for local councillors. Having said that, our corrupt provincial leader Doug Ford is trying to take over 7 regions by appointing their leaders. But we are turfing that fascist soon.

Thank you!

Not just that. We don't need congressional districts at all. We should just elect slates of candidates. If your slate gets 60% of the vote statewide, your slate gets to fill that percentage of the state's total house seats. We also need to eliminate the hard cap on 435 and apportion better.

Ban gerrymandering. Ban Electoral College. Reverse Citizens United. Reverse all Republican restrictions on voting rights.

I totally agree. And the Democrats missed a chance to talk about Independent Commissions when the Republicans were talking about the SAVE act. They should have been on the offensive and force Republicans to defend gerrymandering.

They did. It was called THE VOTING RIGHTS ACT OF 1965!

amen....

While we are at it, every senator and representative should be running under a legal agreement with its voters that allow for a recall. Side step the Supreme Court decisions, and make it a legal agreement with the elected person and its voters, not the “seat” and its voters

Well, obviously we should. We should require all states to get an independent commission (say in Finland, perhaps) to draw the voting maps. And we should make voting mandatory, with vote by mail in all states, instead of trying to suppress the vote. And get rid of that stupid electoral college.

Repeal the Apportionment Act that mandated single-member districts. Create multi-member districts (determined by independent agency) and switch to some variant of ranked-choice voting. That would make Gerrymandering extremely difficult.

Should? That’s the future. We have to deal with NOW. And fight.

While we are at it, can we: 1 - Get rid of the electoral college. 2 - Implement ranked choice voting at least for Federal offices. 3 - campaign finance reform. It makes me sick to see how much money is wasted on commercials that none of us want to see.

Totally agree. Gerrymandering in any state should illegal!!!! States that commit this should be heavily fined and lose funding for various projects.

Sometimes you have to fight fire with fire

Missouri is actually moderate (to us 😂), like 60% GOP. But, as a heavily gerrymandered state, elected representatives are far-right whackjobs who spend most of their time trying to monitor/regulate/punish gynecologists, women, and blue cities. It would be farcical if it weren't real.

... Master Bullshiters always say such things when Gerrymandering ain't gong their way ...

Cool, now explain why we should keep the electoral votes.🤨

Huge difference.

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And California voters temporarily yes until the next census. Fight 🔥 with 🔥

We should be choosing are representatives, with Gerrymandering our representatives pick their constituents. That’s not democracy. We have the tools to create fair districts, now let’s find the will to use them. Vote MAGA OUT! 🇺🇸 ⚖️ 🗽

In this day and age, we should be able to agnostically map "put x% of this pop into one geographic slice"

Absolutely!💙

Logic! I wish we had more like you in positions of authority.

That’s great cartoon meme ! I knew there was a relevant cartoon from the 2020 that I put in my epic political cartoon file similar to yours !

So we need to expand the house.

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We need a new Constitution. When the last one was written, only white men with property seemed to have power or place in the government. It's not that different right now so lets start over.

Ban gerrymandering and end the electoral college. Presidents should campaign to make the nation better not the just the battleground states.

Ban all congressional maps period and go to proportional representation. We’ve calcified a system that was created before John Stuart Mill was even born.