“authority to manage voting belongs to the States […] current Republican congress is entirely a produce of Gerrymandering”
the improper way the states have managed their own voting is maybe the best reason why we should take it away from them.
Yes! This^^^
As soon as we eliminate the notion of district, gerrymandering goes away.
Party-List proportional representation doesn’t eliminate gerrymandering, it just moves it to the formerly-smoke-filled back rooms where the party bosses do their deals, and in many-party versions, to the coalition processes, which can let small parties (whether reasonable ones like most Greens and the D66 in the Netherlands or crazy ones like some of the Israeli hardline religious parties) have disproportionately large influence.
It also makes it difficult to deal with questions like “Should Scotland become independent from England again?”, since there are lots more English voters in the UK than Scots, and also it allows large population groups to make policy for local areas where those groups are non-representative, e.g. big city voters making farm policy.
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