If we can sweep both exec and legislative branch, our BIGGEST priority needs to be . . . .

[Stinky The Clown]

. . . . anti gerrymandering legislation.

NO ONE is served by it. NO ONE.

My favored way forward is to overlay states with regularly shaped districts that respect population only. No racially dictated districts to saved minority House seats. No politically dictated districts to favor one party or another. The districts need to of a REGULAR shape, tending toward perfectly square. Size variations are possible, of course, for dense urban, suburban, and sparsely populated rural districts.

The precise method by which districts are drawn needs much greater study, but the above is the concept I favor, but is certainly not the only way it can be done.

[Hekate]

1. Let the brainstorming begin!

[trotsky]

2. We can sweep both houses of Congress, but districts are generally determined by state legislatures.

Repubs made that their ground game before the last census - taking over state houses. One of the few smart things they've done.

[Stinky The Clown]

5. There is nothing to stop the feds from setting minimum standards and . . .

. . . . still leave the actual process up to the states.

[tblue37]

3. AND get rid of unverifiable voting and voter suppression laws. nt

[Donald Ian Rankin]

6. I think the latter is more important than the former.

There is sod all evidence of vote-flipping by electronic tampering - the most the conspiracy theorists can show is that there are places where it *can't* be proved it *didn't* happen (which, I admit, is still more than a little worrying).

Voter suppression and gerrymandering, by contrast, are both things we have solid proof are making a massive difference to the outcomes of elections.

[Squinch]

4. Amen to all of that!

[SickOfTheOnePct]

7. Can't do it

Unconstitutional - states have the right to decide how the representatives are apportioned. Now, the courts can come in, as they've done at various times, and say that the way the state is doing it needs to be looked at a re-done, but I don't believe that Congress can make a law, short of proposing a Constitutional amendment, that actually lays out how the redistricting will be done in each state.

Having said that, I like the changes you're proposing, I just don't think it can be done by a simple law.

[Stinky The Clown]

10. See post 5, above

[Ex Lurker]

8. Are you prepared to have fewer African American House members?

because that will be the effect. I'm not accusing you of racism or anything like that, just saying it would be an unintended consequence, and it may run afoul of the Voting Rights Act.

[RockaFowler]

9. Love this idea!!

Look at PA and Michigan

All gerrymandering must be stopped!!!!