Hoosgot

http://allaboutvoting.com/2008/01/02/do-independent-or-bi-partisan-commissions-solve-gerrymandering/ asks Hoosgot,

An approach to solving gerrymandering of districts is to use an independent commission to draw the districts. This approach can work but often instead of creating an independent commission a bipartisan commission is created. The bipartisan commission still gerrymanders but it does so in a way that is agreeable to the two main parties. (If you need a reminder of how a bipartisan gerrymander works, play mission 3 of the redistricting game) You can read more about how this hazard seems to occur in practice. Quoting Eli Rosenbaum from the WASHINGTON POST Saturday, 29 October, 2005: So why don’t independent commissions work? One big reason is that, as the current commissions demonstrate, equal representation on the panel for both parties …

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