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Supreme Court upholds Arizona's system for redistricting
The outcome preserves efforts in 13 states to limit partisan influence in redistricting. The Supreme Court on Monday upheld Arizona congressional districts drawn by an independent commission and rejected a constitutional challenge from Republican lawmakers. The 5-4 outcome preserves efforts in 13 states to limit partisan influence in redistricting. Most notably, California uses an independent commission to draw electoral boundaries for its largest-in-the-nation congressional delegation.
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+5Submitted 9 years ago by spaceghoti
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The way I understood it though is that the state's constitution says that the power to redistrict lies in the Legislature, meaning that the constitution would overrule the original state vote in 2000 unless they were voting on a constitutional amendment. If they had not codified via constitutional amendment then the Supreme's rule wrong in this case, if they did then they ruled right. I'm confused on some of the details.
As for the private gerrymandering, it's a great idea in theory but it too is bound to be marred by massive political divides. The whole idea of the redistricting is full of corruption and there's nothing to replace it. It may be time to try proportional voting? At least in a lower level test case.