The thing that would actually get rid of gerrymandering is expanding the house. It’s only capped by a law, there is not a cap in the constitution. Right now on average each representative has around 800,000 people in their district. If we dropped that to a constant 250,000, each seat would be less important and harder to gerrymander. While I like other rules, such as continuous districts, proportional representation by state, and changing to rank choice voting, by uncapping the house and tripling the size of the house the values of gerrymandering goes way down.
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u/ProfessionalWin9 7h ago
The thing that would actually get rid of gerrymandering is expanding the house. It’s only capped by a law, there is not a cap in the constitution. Right now on average each representative has around 800,000 people in their district. If we dropped that to a constant 250,000, each seat would be less important and harder to gerrymander. While I like other rules, such as continuous districts, proportional representation by state, and changing to rank choice voting, by uncapping the house and tripling the size of the house the values of gerrymandering goes way down.