Asked whether two “unconstitutional” acts make a right as Democrats look to counter GOP redistricting efforts, Ken Martin said, “In this case, I would say yes.”
Democratic National Committee Chair Ken Martin defended California’s redistricting efforts while criticizing Republicans’ own efforts as unconstitutional.
“If they’re going to do this and continue doing this nonsense, which is unconstitutional and illegal, we’re going to be forced to do it ourselves in other states,” Martin said in an interview with NBC News, referencing GOP redistricting efforts.
Asked whether two unconstitutional acts make a right, Martin said, “In this case, I would say yes.”
His comments come as Californians will decide Tuesday whether to approve the state’s Prop 50 ballot measure, which would allow the state to redistrict to favor Democrats in the midterm elections. The move came in response to Republicans’ redistricting efforts in Texas to favor the GOP, which sparked redistricting battles in state legislatures across the country.
Popular vote doesn’t work for the House, which is intended to be local representation. It can be fixed by setting the number of representatives based on a set number of people per representative instead of having a max size and having a neutral third party draw the districts.
The president should absolutely be elected by popular vote.
That’ll make zero difference.
Which then moves the problem to preventing subversion of the supposedly neutral third party. See also: every other appointed regulatory body.
it actually could if you did it by party and they had a roster of who would be positioned up to winning the whole house. Its my understanding parliments work somewhat like this but I may not be understanding that correct.
Electoral lists are a feature of some parliamentary systems. They largely ensure that party apparatchiks can impose candidates on the voters by guaranteeing the lifers safe seats. That means you get to vote for a party but have no choice about the person.
I assumed the lists were done in the parlimentary equivalent of primaries.
Yes, if we had a completely different system it would be different.