A reader comments on the Ohio redistricting amendment:
I’m still of the mind that districts should be drawn by computer, and that no political factor should be included in the software. It should be all be simple demographics and geographic similarities/impediments.
I’m still at a loss as to how this would work. In a highly partisan polity, a representational democracy really isn’t – those who don’t approve of the victors in an election also find their viewpoints unrepresented.
In at least some European countries, my understanding is that the result of a vote is used to allocate how many representatives a given party will have. This, however, leads to team politics, which long-time readers know has a host of problems leading to second- and third-raters in the national representative bodies.
Governance is a tough business.
