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Over 20 undergraduates are members of the Redistricting Policy Group, which was formed at the beginning of the school year to study the history and practice of congressional apportionment in order to understand an issue that, Lesser said, is particularly important in the current political environment...
...Lesser said the issue is particularly salient because of three recent developments—an abuse of power in Texas redistricting, a Supreme Court decision that upheld a deeply partisan redistricting in Pennsylvania, and new technologies that allow demographers to accurately assess location and voting behavior. These technologies resulted in a 99 percent reelection rate for House incumbents in 2004, Lesser said...
...Politicians are now picking their voters instead of voters picking their politicians,” Lesser said...
According to Lesser, the group has high hopes for the proposal, but according to the draft of the report, “We harbor no illusions that redistricting reform will be an easy task...
...Lesser said that proposals for the instituting independent redistricting commissions have already started in California, Maryland, and Massachusetts, and he and the group hope other states will follow suit...