Comments on: More talks on redistricting reform https://www.overlawyered.com/2016/04/talks-redistricting-reform/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Mon, 25 Apr 2016 15:05:54 +0000 hourly 1 By: A guy named Dan https://www.overlawyered.com/2016/04/talks-redistricting-reform/comment-page-1/#comment-335691 Mon, 25 Apr 2016 15:05:54 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=58782#comment-335691 Had a thought on this subject last week. As I read the Constitution, the process of apportioning representation within states is a matter for the states alone, subject to the “One-man, one-vote” Supreme Court decisions that state that the districts be approximately equal in population.

What seems to be missing is any constitutional requirement that representation be apportioned by geographic districts. Could a state, given today’s transportation and communications advances, avoid the gerrymandering issue by assigning representation alphabetically or even randomly across the voting public?

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