End Partisan Gerrymandering

Brief
Partisan gerrymandering has been an issue for our democracy for generations. Both parties have been guilty of drawing maps to benefit their members, lock in majorities, and protect incumbents. This practice undercuts the basis of our representative democracy.

We need to get control of our democracy back in the hands of the people, and we need our politicians to reflect the will of the constituencies they represent. If we don’t remove the politics from the drawing of district maps for voting purposes, we’ll continue to have representative bodies that don’t reflect the populations they’re representing, and promoting an agenda that is reflective of a smaller and smaller proportion of the population."Gerrymandering has led to legislators being more worried about primary challenges from the extremes of their own party rather than appealing to a broad constituency.  This in turn has led to increased polarization and dysfunction and more people tuning out because they don’t feel represented. We should do all we can to reverse redrawing voting districts on both sides."

Problems to be Solved

 * Partisan gerrymandering has undercut the foundations of our representative democracy.

Goals

 * End partisan gerrymandering

Guiding Principles

 * Democracy
 * Equality

As President, I will…

 * Promote the use of the efficiency gap to measure partisan gerrymandering when evaluating and drawing district maps.
 * Promote the use of independent redistricting commissions (a nonpartisan, supermajority commission, similar to California’s).
 * Appoint Supreme Court justices who support the use of sociological tools such as the efficiency gap to help end partisan gerrymandering.