Gerrymandering
A part of American politics for over 200 years, gerrymandering districts is nonetheless unfairly political, regardless of the party drawingthe lines. Representatives should be representing a set of constituents that live together in a community or region with common economic, cultural, and social perspectives, not a set of constituents with nothing more in common than being likely to vote for a given political party that had power when the districts were last redrawn to balance the populations of each. Redistricting for population shifts is necessary and appropriate, but drawing boundaries that are designed primarily to ensure the majority party will gain the most seats with oddly shaped districts that bear no resemblance to commonly accepted community or regional boundaries is disenfranchising voters in those divided communities who are split just because otherwise they might elect a representative from the minority party. Take my home state of Illinois and home district, the 18t...