<story><title>Delaney Introduces Bill to End Gerrymandering, Reform Elections</title><url>https://delaney.house.gov/news/press-releases/delaney-introduces-bill-to-end-gerrymandering-reform-elections</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>thephyber</author><text>While it doesn&amp;#x27;t sound like a bad proposal and could probably get a strong majority of votes in some alternate dimension, the party in power will never allow this to make it to the floor of the House for a vote.[1]&lt;p&gt;The more cynical I become, the more I think the party in power doesn&amp;#x27;t actually want to solve any problems, they only want to focus on wedge issues to ensure they can use {rage, fear, some other emotion} to keep their party constituents engaged enough to vote but not enough to hold their feet to the fire on getting things done. Incumbents in Congress still have 95%+ re-election rates and in 2010 when those rates dipped, Congress was remarkably less productive than usual.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Hastert_Rule&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Hastert_Rule&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Delaney Introduces Bill to End Gerrymandering, Reform Elections</title><url>https://delaney.house.gov/news/press-releases/delaney-introduces-bill-to-end-gerrymandering-reform-elections</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kerkeslager</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m not sure how this would end gerrymandering. Setting up a committee to handle districting doesn&amp;#x27;t solve anything.&lt;p&gt;If I remember correctly, didn&amp;#x27;t someone finally come up with an algorithm which evenly divides populations such that average distance from the average location of the district residents is minimized? A law which mandated use of that or a similar algorithm for district boundaries would actually help. Just moving the problem into committee obfuscates the problem.</text></comment>